Also known as UCMP V-67223

Where: Merced County, California (37.3° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 117.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Mehrten Formation), Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• "Hemphillian, probably late Hemphillian, tenatively correlated with the Pinole Tuff site... which has a potassium-argon date of approximately 5.2 million years"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: S. E. Hirschfeld and S. D. Webb. 1968. Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(5) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 19187: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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