Where: California (38.0° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 106.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Cited as middle Eocene Domengine "stage". AGE: modified to Ypresian-Lutetian and "Domengine stage" following EPICC stratigraphy revision [Hendy, 6/2020].
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36858: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus stantoni n. sp.
Trochocyathus stantoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Flabellum californicum n. sp.
Flabellum californicum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral |