Where: California (36.6° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 101.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lodo Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• Age indicated as Paleocene, but Lodo Fm. ranging into lower Eocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36864: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Deltocyathus whitei n. sp.
Deltocyathus whitei n. sp. Durham 1943 stony coral | |
? Flabellum sp., "Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
? Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral |