UCMP 779 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Lake County, California (38.9° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Martinez Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Martinez Fm. discussed as Eocene by Dickerson 1914, but rocks now regarded as Paleocene following Stewart, Ralph, 1949, Lower Tertiary stratigraphy of Mount Diablo, Marysville Buttes, and west border of lower Central Valley of California: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Chart, OC-34.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1914. Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California. Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California 6:61-180 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190792: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella infragranulata Gabb 1864 turret shell
Turritella pachecoensis Stanton 1896 turret shell
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cooperi Gabb 1864 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda gabbi" = Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii Conrad 1866 pointed nut clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam