Where: Sutter County, California (39.2° N, 121.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 46.9° N, 94.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Nomland 1916 said Tejon Formation but the UCMP loc. 692 now is assigned to the Capay Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1916. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(17):363-524 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122339: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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