Canoas Creek, Temblor (Miocene of the United States)

Where: California (36.1° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 114.0° W)

When: Temblor Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• lower Miocene Vaqueros=Temblor

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203418: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Orchoporus lamberti n. sp. Grant and Hertlein 1938 sand dollar