Stratigraphic range: Late Oligocene-Mid Miocene ~28–11.6 Ma
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Type
Geologic formation
Sub-units
Agua Sandstone Member, Buttonbed Sandstone Member, Carneros Sandstone Member, Cymric Shale Member, Devilwater Siltstone, Gould Shale, Media Shale Member, Round Mountain Silt, Santos Shale Member, Wygal Sandstone Member
Underlies
Monterey Formation
Lithology
Primary
Shale, sandstone
Location
Region
Western San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California
Country
United States
Type section
Named for
Temblor Ranch, McKittrick district, Kern County
Named by
Anderson
Year defined
1905
The Temblor Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene of the Neogene period. It is notable for the famous Sharktooth Hill deposit (otherwise known as Ernst Quarry).[1][2][3]
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The TemblorFormation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene of the Neogene...
to the north near Cholame. The Temblor Range and surrounding region contains extensive outcrops of the Monterey Formation (Miocene age, about 20 to 9 million...
the Gatún Formation of Panama, the Calvert Formation of Maryland, Banco de Concepción in the Canary Islands, and the Bone Valley Formation of Florida...
bones found on the Pacific coast of California: Fulmarus miocaenus (TemblorFormation) and Fulmarus hammeri from the Miocene. The two fulmars are closely...
an extinct genus of dolphin from the Middle Miocene (Serravallian) TemblorFormation of California. Liolithax kernensis, described by Remington Kellogg...
of sea turtle from the Middle Miocene of Peru (Pisco Formation) and California (TemblorFormation). It was first named by James F. Parham and Nicholas...
millions of years, principally in the TemblorFormation, which is of Middle and Lower Miocene age. Within that formation, five different zones are identified...
of a marine bonebed is the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed located in the TemblorFormation in California. Fossil bonebeds don't always consist of one single...
overlying Monterey Formation. North of the Santa Ynez River, the Rincon is typically capped not by the Monterey but by the TemblorFormation, a sandstone similar...
Aulophyseter have been found in: Oidawara Formation, Japan United States TemblorFormation, California St. Marys Formation, Maryland Cetaceans portal Paleontology...
which the same formation is exposed. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In...
The Round Mountain Silt is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal California...
Middle Miocene Takinoue Formation, Hokkaido, Japan. The Island Arc 3:473-485 R. Kellogg. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the TemblorFormation of the Kern River region...
Ridge Formation, of Miocene age; the McDonald/Devilwater pool in the Monterey Formation, of Miocene age; the Agua (Santos) pool in the Temblorformation, of...
immigrant mustelid (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the middle Miocene TemblorFormation of central California". PaleoBios. 29 (1): 13–23. Gingerich, PD; Ul-Haq...
members of the Monterey Formation, of Miocene age, which can be found in much of coastal California; and the Temblorformation, underneath the others,...
Muensteria Muensteria trace fossil from the TemblorFormation (Lower Miocene) of Kern County, California. Note the menisci (back-filling structures) in...
dominated by the Espada Formation. The summit largely consists of Matilija Sandstone. There is a small band of TemblorFormation, a Great Valley Sequence...
the Miocene-age Vaqueros Formation, underlying the Temblor. The impermeable Salt Creek member of the same Vaqueros Formation is above the Leda Sands,...
- Geological Society of America New conodonts from Joins (Ordovician) Formation of Oklahoma. RW Harris, Oklahoma Geology Notes, 1962 Olshevsky, George...
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene strata of the TemblorFormation, California. Bulletin of American Paleontology, California Acad. Sci...
Paleobiology Database. Kellogg, R. (1931). "Pelagic mammals of the TemblorFormation of the Kern River region, California". Proceedings of the California...
Natural History 20: 1–58. R. Kellogg. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the TemblorFormation of the Kern River region, California. Proceedings of the California...
Museum (Natural History). Kellogg, R. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the TemblorFormation of the Kern River region, California. Proceedings of the California...
North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, including the Temblor and Itahashi formations. Based on previous estimates of juvenile specimens, Tsai (2017)...
(1994). "Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon". Palaeontographica Americana. 58: 30–31. Kuhn, O. 1961. Die Familien...
North America II:607-628 R. Kellogg. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the TemblorFormation of the Kern River region, California. Proceedings of the California...
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