Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological,fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
1951, Max B Payne,Type Moreno formation and overlying Eocene strata on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California[1], page 3:
The area contains a great thickness of well exposedfossiliferous, marine strata of uppermost Cretaceous and Eocene age, and it is felt that the most continuous and complete section may be found here.
