UCMP V-67158 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goler Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• believed to be Puercan or Torrejonian by McKenna et al., but "definitely Tiffanian" according to McKenna and Lofgren 2003

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomerate and sandstone

• near base of Cox and Diggles' informal unit Tgsu at the same stratigraphic level as UCMP V5252

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: M. C. McKenna, J. H. Hutchison, and J. H. Hartman. 1987. Paleocene vertebrates and nonmarine Mollusca from the Goler Formation, California. In B. F. Cox (ed.), Basin Analysis and Paleontology of the Paleocene and Eocene Goler Formation, El Paso Mountains, California 31-41 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169436: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
"Family Sinemydidae, Dermatemydidae, or Chelydridae"
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian