UCMP V-5251 (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; thought to be stratigraphically highest Goler vertebrate

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale and sandstone

• gypsiferous carbonaceous shale

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
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle