Where: Fresno County, California (36.4° N, 120.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.4° N, 110.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Temblor Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson and B. Martin. 1914. Neocene record in the Temblor Basin, California, and Neocene deposits of the San Juan District, San Luis Obispo County. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 4(3):15-112 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 237363: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 06.12.2024
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Astrodapsis merriami" = Vaquerosella merriami
"Astrodapsis merriami" = Vaquerosella merriami Anderson 1905 sand dollar | |
Gastropoda | |
Bulla cantuaensis n. sp.
Bulla cantuaensis n. sp. Anderson and Martin 1914 snail | |
Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chione temblorensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis
"Chione temblorensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis Anderson 1905 venus clam |