North Dome (Locality 300) ( of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (35.9° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Macoma Zone Member (Etchegoin Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, R. Stewart, and R. W. Richards. 1940. Geology of the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, California, Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Structure. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 195:1-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19695: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• overlies Patinopecten Zone
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"cf. Mytilus coalingensis" = Mytilus (Crenomytilus) coalingensis
"cf. Mytilus coalingensis" = Mytilus (Crenomytilus) coalingensis Arnold 1909 mussel
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Pseudocardium densatum Conrad 1856 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venerupis cf. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima, ? Saxidomus sp., Venerupis sp.
"Venerupis cf. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima Carpenter 1857 venus clam
? Saxidomus sp. Conrad 1837 venus clam
Venerupis sp. Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863 true whelk
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
cf. Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Dendraster gibbsii Rémond 1863 sand dollar
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equinae indet. Steinmann and Döderlein 1890 horse
"Nannippus? or Calippus?" - ungual phalanx
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Cetacea indet. whale
"porpoise vertebrae"