CAS 101 Del Mar (Eocene of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (33.0° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1916. Corals from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of California and Oregon. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(5):59-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122343: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora vaughani n. sp. Nomland 1916 stony coral