Tejon Hills (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.3° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 113.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Temblor Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Bufton bed

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 203419: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
"Orchoporus tejonensis" = Vaquerosella tejonensis
"Orchoporus tejonensis" = Vaquerosella tejonensis Kew 1920 sand dollar