Point of Rocks (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.7° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 105.9° W)

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 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 203576: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Eoagassizia alta n. gen. n. sp.
Eoagassizia alta n. gen. n. sp. Grant and Hertlein 1938 heart urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
"Cassidulus ellipticus" = Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) ellipticus
"Cassidulus ellipticus" = Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) ellipticus Kew 1920 sea urchin
 Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Amblypygus subhemisphericus Israelsky 1923 sea urchin