Cuyama River, near junction with Huasna Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: California (35.0° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 114.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "Upper Lower Miocene shale, in a part of the Saucesian formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• "rich in foraminifera, indication of great depth"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by L.R. David; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1944. Fossil arthropods of California 2. Description of a lower Miocene fossil carabid beetle, with a discussion of coleopterous elytra. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 43:4-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161515: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Bembidion (Ochthedromus) davidae n. sp.
Bembidion (Ochthedromus) davidae n. sp. Pierce 1944 ground beetle
LACM A4356