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Mount Frazier (SW section 36)

US / CA
34.81500, -118.95500View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Mount Frazier (SW section 36) is a fossil collection site in California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as lacustrine - large and the tectonic setting is pull-apart basin. Documented finds include Dasyhelea stenoceras.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Geologic interval
Early Miocene
Age
23.04–15.98 Ma
Depositional environment
lacustrine - large
Tectonic setting
pull-apart basin
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

SW1/4, section 36, T9N, R20W, at 5500 feet altitude

Fossils found here

Dasyhelea stenoceras
Insecta · Ceratopogonidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 152227 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 34.81500, -118.95500

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