UC 1817 Salt Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Fresno County, California (36.4° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 108.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tejon Group, Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)
• lower Tejon Group
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1916. Corals from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of California and Oregon. Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California Publications 9(5):59-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122294: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2011