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Goleta Formation

geologic formation in Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ18345221 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Goleta Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Goleta Formation” as geologic formation in Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Goleta, Formation and geologic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as geologic formation in Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18345221. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Goleta Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.