Panoche Quad., California (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: California (36.6° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 101.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lodo Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Age indicated as Paleocene, but Lodo Fm. ranging into lower Eocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36864: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathus whitei n. sp. Durham 1943 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
? Flabellum sp., "Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
? Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral