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
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Miochlorotettix kirkbyi n. sp.
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