Also known as UCMP IP8681
Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 119.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 105.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Uvas Conglomerate Member (Tejon Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Eocene, "Domengine Stage," "Transition Stage," or "Tejon Stage."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Nilsen, T. H. in 1971
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 194555: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 21.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea cf. diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell | |
Turritella buwaldana Dickerson 1916 turret shell | |
Sinum obliquum, "Amauropsis cf. alveata" = Amaurellina moragai
Sinum obliquum Gabb 1864 moon snail
"Amauropsis cf. alveata" = Amaurellina moragai Stewart 1927 moon snail | |
"Olivella mathewsoni" = Olivella mathewsonii
"Olivella mathewsoni" = Olivella mathewsonii Gabb 1864 olive snail | |
Conus horni cone shell | |
? Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
"Ectinochilus sp." = Rimella
"Ectinochilus sp." = Rimella Agassiz 1840 true conch | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Corbula horni clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Acanthocardia breweri cockle | |
Anthozoa | |
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