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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Temblor
- Geologic interval
- Early Miocene
- Age
- 23.04–15.98 Ma
- Depositional environment
- coastal indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 1
eastern San Luis Obispo County, California, locality 60, on the top of a prominent ridge one mile east of the San Juan River in the N. W. cor. of the N. E. 1/4, Sec. 3, T. 30 S., R. 17 E.
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 237342 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 35.35110, -120.13961
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