UCMP 532 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 100.0° 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 190774: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella polynominata n. sp.2 Hanna 1924 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Perissolax gabbi n. sp.1 Dickerson 1916 fig shell
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
"Thracia karquinezensis" = Thracia karquinesensis
"Thracia karquinezensis" = Thracia karquinesensis Weaver 1905 clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
"Solen stantoni" = Solena (Eosolen) stantoni
"Solen stantoni" = Solena (Eosolen) stantoni Weaver 1905 clam