Where: Kern County, California (34.9° N, 118.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 104.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Tejon Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; brown sandstone and gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Roy Cohn and 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 207124: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 27.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Macrocallista conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana, "Meretrix hornii" = Macrocallista (Costacallista) hornii, "Meretrix tejonensis" = Pitar uvasana
"Macrocallista conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana Gabb 1864 venus clam
"Meretrix hornii" = Macrocallista (Costacallista) hornii Gabb 1864 venus clam
"Meretrix tejonensis" = Pitar uvasana Conrad 1855 venus clam | |
"Psammobia hornii" = Gari (Gobraeus) hornii
"Psammobia hornii" = Gari (Gobraeus) hornii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Avicula pellucida Gabb 1864 clam |