UCMP 453, Grapevine Canyon (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 104.8° W)
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When: Tejon Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; brown sandstone and gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. E. Dickerson
Primary reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 207117: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 27.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
"Lunatia hornii" = Polinices hornii
"Lunatia hornii" = Polinices hornii Gabb 1864 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Barbatia morsei" = Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei
"Barbatia morsei" = Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei Gabb 1864 clam |