Where: Humboldt County, California (41.0° N, 124.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hookton Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hookton Fm (or Falor Fm equivalent), which overlies the Carlotta Fm of the Wildcat Gp. AGE: Middle-Late Pleistocene according to text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION:

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Miller III

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: W. Miller III. PREPARATION: sample was soaked in 10% sodium hexametaphosphate solution and washed on a screen with 2-mm openings. All fossils separated from matrix were sorted, identified to species if possible,

•counted, and examined for epi- and endobionts.

Primary reference: W. P. Miller III and S. D. Morrison. 1988. Marginal marine Pleistocene fossils from near mouth of Mad River, northern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 45(10):255-266 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96901: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010

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