Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 102.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Domengine Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• AGE: modified to Ypresian and "Domengine Sandstone" following EPICC stratigraphy revision [Hendy, 6/2020].
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
• Repository: formerly UCLA
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187474: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Eohemithyris alexi Hertlein and Grant IV 1944 |