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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Santiago
- Geologic interval
- Uintan
- Age
- 45.9–39.7 Ma
- Depositional environment
- marine indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 1
The specimens were recovered from an excavation at Rancho Carillo bounded by Palomar Airport Drive, Melrose Drive, El Fuerte Street, and the community of La Costa to the south.
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 200663 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 33.12500, -117.23750
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