Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 48.1° N, 89.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Martinez Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Martinez Fm. discussed as Eocene by Dickerson 1914, but rocks now regarded as Paleocene following Stewart, Ralph, 1949, Lower Tertiary stratigraphy of Mount Diablo, Marysville Buttes, and west border of lower Central Valley of California: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Chart, OC-34.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1914. Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California. Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California 6:61-180 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 190778: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017, edited by Austin Hendy and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Dentalium cooperi Gabb 1864 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Leda milleri" = Nuculana (Saccella) denominata, "Leda gabbi" = Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii
"Leda milleri" = Nuculana (Saccella) denominata Hanna 1924 pointed nut clam
"Leda gabbi" = Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii Conrad 1866 pointed nut clam | |
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Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
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"Lima cf. multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata
"Lima cf. multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata Gabb 1869 file clam | |
"Modiolus bakeri" = Idasola bakeri Dickerson 1914 mussel
Modiolus ornatus Gabb 1864 horsemussel
"Mytilus cf. ascia" = Mytilus (Mytilus) ascia Gabb 1864 mussel | |
? Zirphaea sp. Gray 1840 piddock | |
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Tellina undulifera" = Tellina (Saulella) undulifera, Tellina cf. aequalis
"Tellina undulifera" = Tellina (Saulella) undulifera Gabb 1869 tellin clam
Tellina cf. aequalis Gabb 1869 tellin clam | |
? Paphia clarki Dickerson 1914 venus clam
"? Tapes quadrata" = Pitar quadratus Gabb 1864 venus clam
Meretrix stantoni Dickerson 1914 venus clam | |
"Spisula weaveri n. sp." = Mactromeris weaveri
"Spisula weaveri n. sp." = Mactromeris weaveri Dickerson 1914 clam | |
Pholadomya nasuta Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Cuspidaria dolabraeformis" = Cardiomya dolabraeformis
"Cuspidaria dolabraeformis" = Cardiomya dolabraeformis Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Cardita veneriformis" = Centrocardita veneriformis
"Cardita veneriformis" = Centrocardita veneriformis Gabb 1864 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella infragranulata, "Turritella pachecoensis" = Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis
Turritella infragranulata Gabb 1864 turret shell
"Turritella pachecoensis" = Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis Stanton 1896 turret shell | |
Ampullina striata Gabb 1869 snail | |
Xenophora zitteli Weaver 1905 carrier shell | |
Tritonium martinezensis n. sp.
Tritonium martinezensis n. sp. Dickerson 1914 triton | |
Urosyca caudata Gabb 1869 fig shell | |
"Perissolax tricarnatus" = Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus
"Perissolax tricarnatus" = Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus Weaver 1905 murex snail | |
"Neptunea mucronata" = Sycum mucronatum
"Neptunea mucronata" = Sycum mucronatum Gabb 1869 snail | |
? Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail
Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
"Heteroterma striata" = Pyropsis striata
"Heteroterma striata" = Pyropsis striata Stanton 1896 snail | |
"Lunatia hornii" = Polinices hornii Gabb 1864 moon snail
Natica "sp. a" Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
"Cylichna costata" = Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus
"Cylichna costata" = Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus Gabb 1864 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Terebratula sp. Müller 1776 | |
Echinoidea | |
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Anthozoa | |
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral |