Bear Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.1° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 113.2° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203408: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris lorenzanus Kew 1920 pencil urchin
Cidaris branneri2 Arnold 1908 pencil urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae