Also known as UCMP V-93128

Where: Madera County, California (37.1° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 119.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Turlock Lake Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• section is entirely in a normal polarity chron, assumed to be the Brunhes

•material is from several beds within "unit C"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandy claystone and argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• "thousands of specimens" uncovered "during excavation of an expansion cell at the Madera County Fairmead Landfill"

Primary reference: R. G. Dundas, R. B. Smith, and K. L. Verosub. 1996. The Fairmead Landfill Locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County, California: preliminary report and significance. PaleoBios 17(2-4):50-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20327: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen, Patricia Holroyd, Jonathan Cathapermal and Jonathan Marcot

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