Also known as UCMP IP8896
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: San Emigdio Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• Late Eocene, Refugian.
• 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 194587: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 22.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Siphonalia merriami Wagner and Schilling 1923 true whelk | |
Olequahia lorenzana Wagner and Schilling 1923 frog shell | |
? Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Neverita sp. Risso 1826 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Spisula muliniaformis" = Mactromeris muliniaformis, Spisula sp.
"Spisula muliniaformis" = Mactromeris muliniaformis Wagner and Schilling 1923 clam
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam |