Where: Kern County, California (35.6° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 100.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Goler Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• said to be Tiffanian
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•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.
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. L. Lofgren, M. C. McKenna, and S. L. Walsh. 1999. New records of Torrejonian-Tiffanian mammals from the Paleocene-Eocene Goler formation, California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3):60A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14963: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.10.1999, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"about the same stratigraphical level" as Laudate
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Neoplagiaulax sp. Lemoine 1882 multituberculate | |
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Plesiadapis sp. Gervais 1877 primate | |
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Ignacius sp. Matthew and Granger 1921 primate | |
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Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial | |
Golerdelphys stocki n. gen. n. sp.2
Golerdelphys stocki n. gen. n. sp.2 Williamson and Lofgren 2014 marsupial RAM 6432 - tooth (right M2); RAM 6404 (partial talonid of right m2 or m3); RAM 6471 (partial trigonid of right m2 or m3); RAM 6699 (right m2 or m3); RAM 6470 (partial left M3)
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