CAS 494 - Big Tar Canyon [Domengine Sandstone] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (35.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 103.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Domengine Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• AGE: modified to Ypresian and "Domengine Sandstone" following EPICC stratigraphy revision [Hendy, 6/2020].

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: C. Dolin and L. Dolin. 1983. Révision des Triviacea et Cypraeacea (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) éocènes récoltés dans les localité de Gan (Tuilerie et Acot) et Bosdarros (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France). Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20(1):5-48 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183753: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
"Eocypraea (Eocypraea) moumieti" = Sulcocypraea moumieti
"Eocypraea (Eocypraea) moumieti" = Sulcocypraea moumieti Dolin and Dolin 1983 snail