CSUN locality 277, Piru Creek
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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Geologic interval
- Piacenzian
- Age
- 3.6–2.58 Ma
- Depositional environment
- lacustrine - large
- Tectonic setting
- pull-apart basin
- Recorded occurrences
- 2
Small ridge west of Piru Creek, northwest of Pyramid Lake. 427 m (1400 ft) west and 198 m (650ft) south of NE corner sec. 25 ["sec. 5" given in paper is incorrect], T7N, R19W, Black Mountain quadrangle, 7.5 series, 1958, revised 1974.
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 162798 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 34.67580, -118.84320
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