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; thought to be stratigraphically highest Goler vertebrate
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale and sandstone
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 169438: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle |