Also known as LACM 4464, LACM 4546, 4547, 4961

Where: Orange County, California (33.7° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 113.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: "Topanga" Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Howard and Barnes (1987) state that these deposits had been previously called the Topanga Formation, but that the name Topanga Formation is no longer used in this area, but no new formation name has been applied to these deposits.

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•correlated with the Sharktooth Hill Local Fauna; Barstovian NALMA

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, pebbly, gray, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: H. Howard and L. G. Barnes. 1987. Middle Miocene marine birds from the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 383:1-9 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19595: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Mark Uhen and Jonathan Marcot

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