Where: Fresno County, California (36.1° N, 120.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.0° N, 118.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Chione elsmerensis other zone, Jacalitos Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Chione elsmerensis zone. Woodring (1940) says Chione elsmerensis zone "included most of the Jacalitos"

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nomland; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(14):191-254 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216869: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.12.2020

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