Pyramid Hill, west (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 109.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vedder Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• 75 feed below the top of the Veder zone. The sands of the Vedder zone lie about 1,400 feet below the top of the Temblor Formation. Kellogg (1932) states this is equivalent to the Vaqueros and thus Burdigalian (=Langhian) in age. This is almost certainly wrong. Age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, calcareous sandstone

• fine-grained calcareous sandstone nodule

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1932. A Miocene long-beaked porpoise from California. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 87(2):1-11 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57789: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.01.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten bowersi" = Vertipecten bowersi, "Pecten perrini" = Vertipecten perrini
"Pecten bowersi" = Vertipecten bowersi Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten perrini" = Vertipecten perrini Arnold 1906 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea titan" = Crassostrea titan
"Ostrea titan" = Crassostrea titan Conrad 1853 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis
"Phacoides sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis Arnold 1909 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Dosinia margaritana" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium vaqueroensis" = Dallocardia vaquerosense
"Cardium vaqueroensis" = Dallocardia vaquerosense Arnold 1908 cockle
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Spisula granti" = Hybolophus granti
"Spisula granti" = Hybolophus granti Wiedey 1928 clam
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Argyrocetus joaquinensis n. sp. Kellogg 1932 toothed whale