Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 97.4° W)

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When: San Francisquito Formation, Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• Description: Sparsely fossliferous limy shale concretions weathering out of mudstones within about 10 m of basal contact between basement and San Francisquito Formation. Stratigraphic Unit: Ts2

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, intraclastic, conglomeratic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. A. Kooser

Primary reference: M. A. Kooser. 1980. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California. 1-201 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176921: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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