Where: Sutter County, California (39.2° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 103.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Capay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Nomland 1916 said Tejon Formation but the UCMP loc. 1853 now is assigned to the Capay Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1916. Corals from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of California and Oregon. Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California Publications 9(5):59-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122337: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria sp.2 Lamarck 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia variabilis Nomland 1916 stony coral | |
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? Trochocyathus perrini n. sp.1
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Malacostraca | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Leda gabbi" = Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii2
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"Ostrea aviculaformis" = Gryphaeostrea aviculiformis2
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"Glycimeris marysvillensis n. sp." = Limopsis (Limopsis) marysvillensis1
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"Glycimeris cor" = Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini2
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"Arca hornii" = Pachecoa hornii2
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"Venericardia planicosta" = Venericor planicosta2
"Venericardia planicosta" = Venericor planicosta2 Lamarck 1801 clam as Venericardia planicosta merriami
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"Crassatellites grandis" = Crassatella uvasana2
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"Solen parallelus" = Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus2
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"Cardium marysvillensis" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2, "Cardium dalli n. sp." = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1
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Tellina sutterensis n. sp.1
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"Psammobia hornii" = Gari (Gobraeus) hornii2
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"Dosinia elevata" = Cyclinella elevata2, ? Meretrix sp.2, "Meretrix hornii" = Macrocallista (Costacallista) hornii2, "Macrocallista conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana2, "Isocardium tejonensis" = Nitidavenus tejonensis2
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"Diplodonta polita" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) polita2
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Scaphopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Cylichna costata" = Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2
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"Calyptraea excentrica" = Calyptraea diegoana2
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"Ancilla (Oliverato) californica" = Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica2, Voluta lawsoni n. sp.1, Caricella stormsiana n. sp.1
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Surcula holwayi n. sp.1, Surcula clarki n. sp.1, "Drillia cooperi n. sp." = Turricula cooperi2, "Surcula crenatospira n. sp." = Crenaturricula crenatospira5
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"Surcula (Surculites) sinuata" = Surculites sinuatus2, "Surcula davisiana" = Surculites mathewsonii1, Turris inconstans1, Turris andersoni n. sp.1, Turris monolifera1, Turris suturalis2
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Fusinus merriami n. sp.2, "Clavella tabulata n. sp." = Clavilithes tabulatus5, Fusinus (Priscofusus) lineatus n. sp.1
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Galeodea sutterensis n. sp.2
Galeodea sutterensis n. sp.2 Dickerson 1916 snail on locality list table on p. 408, listed as "Galeodea tuberculata", but in text as Galeodea sutterensis at this locality
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"Nyctilochus californicus" = Gyrineum californicum2
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"Lunatia nuciformis" = Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis2, "Neverita globosa" = Neverita (Neverita) globosa2, "Neverita secta" = Glossaulax reclusiana2
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Acrilla (Ferminoscala) tejonensis3 Dickerson 1916 wentletrap "Two poor wax casts from U. C., loc. 1853, Marysville Buttes, Eocene, can probably be referred to this species."
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Turritella merriami n. sp.1
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? Calliostoma arnoldi n. sp.1
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"Monodonta wattsi n. sp." = Homalopoma wattsi2
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Chondrichthyes | |
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Echinoidea | |
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