Also known as USGS loc. M4469

Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 119.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 111.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wygal Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ralph Arnold; W. O. Addicott in 1908; 1971; reposited in the USGS, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219727: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.04.2021

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