UCMP 65 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 99.9° W)

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 190769: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya nasuta Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium cooperi" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri
"Phacoides turneri" = Claibornites (Codalucina) turneri Stanton 1896 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Fusus mathewsonii" = Surculites mathewsonii
"Fusus mathewsonii" = Surculites mathewsonii Gabb 1864 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
"Fusus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez
"Fusus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez Gabb 1864 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Amauropsis martinezensis Dickerson 1914 moon snail