USGS Cenozoic M4647 Salt Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP IP8666

Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 104.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Reed Canyon Siltstone Member (Tejon Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nilsen, T. H. in 1971; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: T. H. Nilsen. 1987. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1268:1-110 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194190: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 16.06.2018, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by W.O. Addicott.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
"Pinna cf. barrowsi" = Pinna (Pinna) barrowsi
"Pinna cf. barrowsi" = Pinna (Pinna) barrowsi Dickerson 1914 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam