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)
• in Hoots 1931 as "Tejon", but mapped as Coal Canyon Formation by Yerkes and Campbell 1980. 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 193038: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii
"Cardium brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii Gabb 1864 cockle | |
"Solen parallelus" = Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus
"Solen parallelus" = Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus Gabb 1864 clam |