Devil's Kitchen, near: Oligocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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| two lumbar vertebrae with rather wide transverse processes, centra more or less pentagonal in cross section, and high neural spines. They correspond in most features with vertebrae of shark-toothed dolphins (Squalodontidae) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda indet.
Goldfuss 1820
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 119.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 105.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 23.04 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | San Lorenzo | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The whale bones mentioned, which were found considerably below the middle of the San Lorenzo formation (in the lower part of Wagner and Schilling's "Pleito formation") |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: distinctly brown and brownish gray weathering series of shale, sandy shale, and sandstone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Bones of fossil whales and casts of small pelecypods were found about 350 feet above the base of this unit in a dark-gray concretionary calcareous sandstone. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 206591 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-11-20 15:31:40 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-11-20 15:31:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29390. | H. W. Hoots. 1930. Geology and oil resources along the southern border of San Joaquin Valley, California. US Geological Survey Bulletin Report B 812-D:243-332 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |