Where: Lake County, California (38.9° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 100.3° W)
• 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 190796: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Fusus cf. flexuosus Gabb 1864 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leda alaeformis" = Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis
"Leda alaeformis" = Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis Gabb 1869 pointed nut clam | |
"Solen stantoni" = Solena (Eosolen) stantoni
"Solen stantoni" = Solena (Eosolen) stantoni Weaver 1905 clam | |
Paphia cf. clarki Dickerson 1914 venus clam
? Meretrix sp. Lamarck 1799 venus clam |