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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Puente
- Geologic interval
- Late Miocene
- Age
- 11.63–5.333 Ma
- Depositional environment
- offshore
- Recorded occurrences
- 10
the member "was deposited in similar 'moderately deep' slope to upper bathyal marine environments"
"in a shallow ditch in a small gully... 0.5 km (0.3 miles) north-northeast of Olive Hill Reservoir... approximately 250 m west and 640 m south of the northeast corner of section 8, T. 4 S., R. 9 W." (coordinate then given but misstated as being at 30ºN instead of 33ºN)
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 91023 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 33.84000, -117.82027
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