UCMP V-6516, Turtle Hill (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

• in a cross-stratified lens of argillaceous greyish-brown gritstone

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 169437: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle