USGS Cenozoic M4665 Los Lobos Creek (Eocene of the United States)

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
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Undetermined fragments
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858 divaricate nutclam
 Carditida - Carditidae
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam