Also known as UCMP V71128
Where: Solano County, California (38.5° N, 121.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 103.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• The invertebrate faunas from these localities have been assigned to the Capay stage of the Californian marine Eocene by Merriam and Turner (1937) and are correlative with one another and with faunas from the Cerros shale member of the Lodo formation, north of Coalinga, and from glauconitic shales and sandstones at Marysville Buttes.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; pyritic, gray, green, carbonaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. M. Parks, B. L. Clark, D. B. Kemper Palmer; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. B. K. Palmer. 1923. A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(8):289-318 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201621: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 16.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
? Ranina sp. Lamarck 1801 crab | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Cadulus meganosensis n. sp." = Cadulus (Cadulus) meganosensis
"Cadulus meganosensis n. sp." = Cadulus (Cadulus) meganosensis Palmer 1923 tusk shell | |
Dentalium stramineum Gabb 1864 tusk shell
Dentalium vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turbonilla dunnensis n. sp., Syrnola concava n. sp., Syrnola unicostata n. sp., Odontostomia dunnensis n. sp., Odontostomia vacavillensis n. sp.
Turbonilla dunnensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail
Syrnola concava n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail
Syrnola unicostata n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail
Odontostomia dunnensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail
Odontostomia vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail | |
Tornatellaea vacavillensis n. sp., Acteon vacavilleneis n. sp.
Tornatellaea vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail
Acteon vacavilleneis n. sp. snail | |
Bittium (Semibittium) quadricingulatum n. sp. Palmer 1923 cerith snail | |
Ficopsis furlongi n. sp.
Ficopsis furlongi n. sp. Palmer 1923 fig shell | |
Ancilla vacavillensis n. sp., Ancilla meganosensis n. sp.
Ancilla vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 olive snail
Ancilla meganosensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 olive snail | |
Janiopsis californensis n. sp., Metula (Celatoconus) vacavillensis n. sp.
Janiopsis californensis n. sp. true whelk
Metula (Celatoconus) vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 true whelk | |
Euthriofusus crescentis n. sp.
Euthriofusus crescentis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail | |
? Mangilia vacavillensis n. sp.
? Mangilia vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail | |
? Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Turbella elegans n. sp.
Turbella elegans n. sp. Palmer 1923 snail | |
? Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Yoldia mosesi n. sp." = Portlandia (Portlandia) mosesi
"Yoldia mosesi n. sp." = Portlandia (Portlandia) mosesi Palmer 1923 clam | |
"? Solemya dunnensis n. sp." = Acharax dunnensis
"? Solemya dunnensis n. sp." = Acharax dunnensis Palmer 1923 Awning Clam | |
"Pecten (Propeamusium) vacavillensis n. sp." = Propeamussium interradiatum
"Pecten (Propeamusium) vacavillensis n. sp." = Propeamussium interradiatum Gabb 1869 mud scallop | |
Echinoidea | |
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Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia dickersoni Nomland 1916 stony coral | |
"Trochocyathus merriami" = Platytrochus merriami
"Trochocyathus merriami" = Platytrochus merriami Nomland 1916 stony coral | |
Stephanophyllia californica Nomland 1916 stony coral
? Stephanophyllia vacavillensis n. sp. Palmer 1923 stony coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Cristellaria kemperi n. sp. Hanna 1923
Marginulina cushmani n. sp. Hanna 1923
Cristellaria vacavillensis n. sp. Hanna 1923 | |
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Pulvinulina helicella n. sp.
Pulvinulina helicella n. sp. Hanna 1923 | |
"Nonionina clarki n. sp." = Cyclammina clarki
"Nonionina clarki n. sp." = Cyclammina clarki Hanna 1923 | |
Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria vertebralis, Nodosaria raphanus, Nodosaria ? consobrina, Nodosaria soluta, "Nodosaria pauperata" = Dentalina pauperata
Nodosaria vertebralis Brady 1884
Nodosaria raphanus Brady 1884
Nodosaria ? consobrina Bagg 1905
Nodosaria soluta Reuss 1851
"Nodosaria pauperata" = Dentalina pauperata d'Orbigny 1846 |