UCMP loc. A-1282 - Big Tar Canyon [Domengine Sandstone] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (35.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 103.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Domengine Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• AGE: modified to Ypresian following EPICC stratigraphy revision [Hendy, 6/2020].

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: H. E. Vokes. 1939. Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 38:1-246 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183751: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Eocypraea cf. inflata Lamarck 1802 snail