Featherstone Quarry, Covina (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Puente Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous, white claystone

• heavy white even diatomaceous rock containing much clay, not formed of pure diatoms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Jordan. 1925. The fossil fishes of the Miocene of Southern California. Stanford University Publications. University Series 4(1):1-51 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186045: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.06.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Sternbergiidae
Sternbergia waitei n. gen. n. sp.
Sternbergia waitei n. gen. n. sp. Jordan 1925 marsupial
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
Lompoquia retropes Jordan and Gilbert 1919
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Tunita sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
 Atheriniformes - Atherinopsidae
Zanteclites hubbsi Jordan and Gilbert 1919 silverside
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
"Lembicus meiklejohni n. gen. n. sp." = Ganoessus meiklejohni
"Lembicus meiklejohni n. gen. n. sp." = Ganoessus meiklejohni Jordan 1925 herring