Vista, Horizon 1 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCR 4865

Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Delmar Formation (La Jolla Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: peritidal; sandstone and siltstone

• interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. Givens and M. P. Kennedy. 1976. Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):954-975 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200656: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.04.2019

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides (Potamides) carbonicola Cooper 1894 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium preussi Hanna 1924 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Gemmula cf. violeta Hanna 1927 turrid