Where: Riverside County, California (33.6° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 98.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: P7 - P8 foram zone, Maniobra Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Basal part of formation; Capay Stage; Foraminifera indicative of P7 to P9 Zones and calcareous nannofossils indicative of CP9 to CP11 Zones also have been found 58 m upsection from CSUN locality 662 (Advocate, 1983).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and D. M. Advocate. 1986. New Early Eocene Mollusks from the Orocopia Mountains, Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 60(4):851-864 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177614: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.04.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella andersoni Dickerson 1916 turret shell | |
? Loxotrema turritum Gabb 1869 snail | |
Eocernina hannibali Dickerson 1914 snail | |
Surculites mathewsonii Gabb 1864 turrid | |
Bivalvia | |
"Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii
"Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii Gabb 1864 cockle | |
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) cf. joaquinensis Vokes 1939 venus clam |