Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 57.9° W)
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When: Bedford Canyon Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by John C. Holden; R. F. Yerkes, R. H. Campbell, C. H. Gray, Jr., and R. W. Imlay in unknown; April 27, 1962
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1964. Middle and Upper Jurassic Fossils from Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 38(3):505-509 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 200048: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 01.03.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Teloceras sp. ammonite | |
Dorsetensia cf. liostraca Buckman 1892 ammonite | |
? Holcophylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus cf. hamadae Hayami 1960 clam | |
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster |