USGS Cenozoic M5785 Doc Williams Canyon (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP IP8893

Where: Kern County, California (35.0° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 105.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metralla Sandstone Member (Tejon Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Possibly late Eocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nilsen, T. H. and Dibblee, T. W. in 1972

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 194561: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 21.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium cf. laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis
"Dentalium cf. laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis Hickman 1969 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
? Molopophorus sp. Gabb 1869 snail
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Undetermined fragment
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam