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 | |
"Dentalium cf. laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis
"Dentalium cf. laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis Hickman 1969 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
? Molopophorus sp. Gabb 1869 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
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Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam |