Kirkby site 42B, Calico Mountains (Miocene of the United States)

Where: California (35.0° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.2° W)

When: Calico Member (Barstow Formation), Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Overlying fine-grained lacustrine beds (here referred to as the Calico Member of the Barstow Formation) are bracketed between ca. 19 and 16.9 Ma, and are thus older than the type section of the Barstow Formation in the Mud Hills. Several 17.1–16.8 Ma calc-alkaline dacite domes intrude the Calico Member.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, nodular, brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with silica, replaced with other

Collected by Samuel Kirkby; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1963. Fossil arthropods of California no. 25. Silicified leafhoppers from California mountains nodules. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 62:69-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152205: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadellidae
Miochlorotettix kirkbyi n. sp. Pierce 1963 leafhopper
LACMIP 5787 (from nodule 18799)