Also known as UCMP IP8684
Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 119.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 105.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Metralla Sandstone Member (Tejon Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Eocene?
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• Undetermined fragments
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 194558: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 21.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
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Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858 divaricate nutclam | |
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam |