Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 99.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Coal Canyon Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Originally described as "Martinez," but now mapped as Coal Canyon (Yerkes and Campbell 1994). AGE: Changed to Thanetian following EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 6/2020].
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Leland Stanford Junior University Paleontology Collections, eventually transferred to the California Academy of Sciences
Primary reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 193036: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Trochocyathus zitteli" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Periploma undulifera" = Tellina (Saulella) undulifera
"Periploma undulifera" = Tellina (Saulella) undulifera Gabb 1869 tellin clam | |
Septifer elegans n. sp.
Septifer elegans n. sp. Waring 1917 mussel | |
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Ostrea idriaensis" = Acutostrea idriaensis
"Ostrea idriaensis" = Acutostrea idriaensis Gabb 1869 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella pachecoensis Stanton 1896 turret shell | |
Retipirula crassitesta Gabb 1869 volute | |
Heteroterma trochoidea Gabb 1869 snail | |
"Fasciolaria mucronata" = Sycum mucronatum
"Fasciolaria mucronata" = Sycum mucronatum Gabb 1869 true whelk |