Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 99.9° W)
When: Martinez Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Martinez Fm. discussed as Eocene by Dickerson 1914, but rocks now regarded as Paleocene following Stewart, Ralph, 1949, Lower Tertiary stratigraphy of Mount Diablo, Marysville Buttes, and west border of lower Central Valley of California: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Chart, OC-34.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1914. Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California. Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California 6:61-180 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 190769: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Fusus mathewsonii" = Surculites mathewsonii
"Fusus mathewsonii" = Surculites mathewsonii Gabb 1864 turrid | |
"Fusus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez
"Fusus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez Gabb 1864 snail | |
Amauropsis martinezensis Dickerson 1914 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Pholadomya nasuta Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Cardium cooperi" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Cardium cooperi" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle | |
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri Stanton 1896 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral | |
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral |