Edentulous Jaw Site, locality V98012 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 4b Member (Goler Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Ti2–Ti3

•Lofgren et al. 2014: The mammalian fauna from member 4a and the lower part of member 4b is collectively referred to as the Goler Assemblage. the Goler Assemblage is probably middle Tiffanian (Ti3–Ti4a), although a Ti5a age is also possible.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and siltstone

• Sandstone and siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: D. L. Lofgren, J. G. Honey, M. C. McKenna, R. L. Zondervan, and E. E. Smith. 2008. Paleocene primates from the Goler Formation of the Mojave Desert in California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 41:11-28 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143202: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.04.2013, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Ignacius frugivorus Matthew and Granger 1921 primate
RAM 6433 (left M3)
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Nannodectes lynasi Lofgren et al. 2014 primate
five m3s RAM 6961 (fig. 4A), RAM 6963 (fig. 4B), RAM 6960 (fig. 4C), RAM 6700 (fig. 4D), RAM 6934, m2 RAM 6446, mx fragment RAM 6935, mx trigonid RAM 6946, M3 RAM 6957 (fig. 5H), M2 RAM 6962 (fig. 5G), P3 RAM 6931 (fig. 5D), and 2 I1s RAM 6431 (fig. 5A), RAM 6929 (fig. 5B)
Plesiadapis cf. anceps Simpson 1936 primate
Five m3s (RAM 6960, RAM 6963, RAM 6700, RAM 6961, RAM 6934), 1 m2 (RAM 6446), 1 mx fragment (RAM 6935), 1 mx trigonid (RAM 6946), 1 M3 (RAM 6957), 1 M2(RAM6962), 1 P4 (RAM6931), and 2 I1s (RAM6431, RAM6929)
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus cf. bisonensis Gazin 1956 condylarth
RAM 9659, RM1