CSUN 673 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Riverside County, California (33.6° N, 115.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.9° N, 93.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: P7 - P8 foram zone, Maniobra Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Basal part of formation; Capay Stage; Foraminifera indicative of P7 to P9 Zones and calcareous nannofossils indicative of CP9 to CP11 Zones also have been found 58 m upsection from CSUN locality 662 (Advocate, 1983).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; shale

• These deposits represent a transitional marginal marine to deep-water submarine-fan sequence deposited in subtropical waters (Advocate, 1983).
• consists of siliciclastics that locally contain some macrofossils and microfossils.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1991. Molluscan Paleontology of the Lower Eocene Maniobra Formation, Orocopia Mountains, Southern California. Eocene Geologic History San Diego Region, Pacific Section SEPM 68:217-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193544: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 26.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Specimens at CSUN
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella andersoni
Turritella andersoni Dickerson 1916 turret shell
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Eocernina hannibali, Pachycrommium clarki
Eocernina hannibali Dickerson 1914 snail
Pachycrommium clarki Stewart 1927 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista (Costacallista) hornii
Callista (Costacallista) hornii Gabb 1864 venus clam
"Callista (Costacallista) hornii vokesi"
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Pacificor) sp.
Venericardia (Pacificor) sp. Verástegui 1953 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
? Astrocoenia dilloni
? Astrocoenia dilloni Durham 1942 stony coral