Where: California (34.9° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Calico Member (Barstow Formation), Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Overlying fine-grained lacustrine beds (here referred to as the Calico Member of the Barstow Formation) are bracketed between ca. 19 and 16.9 Ma, and are thus older than the type section of the Barstow Formation in the Mud Hills. Several 17.1–16.8 Ma calc-alkaline dacite domes intrude the Calico Member.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, nodular, brown shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with silica, replaced with other
Collected by Mrs Rouse in 1956-1957; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1958. Fossil Arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules. Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 57(1):13-24 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144524: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 10.05.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathamitermes rousei n. sp.
Gnathamitermes rousei n. sp. Pierce 1958 long jawed desert termite Gnathamitermes magnoculus rousei LAMIP 362
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