UCMP 1745 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 100.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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 190787: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
"Fusus cf. martinez" = Whitneyella martinez
"Fusus cf. martinez" = Whitneyella martinez Gabb 1864 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Amauropsis martinezensis Dickerson 1914 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri Stanton 1896 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda packardi" = Nuculana (Saccella) packardi
"Leda packardi" = Nuculana (Saccella) packardi Dickerson 1914 pointed nut clam