The Temblor Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves

fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...

dating back from the Late Oligocene to the

Middle Miocene The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages. The Middle Miocene is preceded by the Early Miocene. The sub-epoch lasted from 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma to 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma (million y ...

of the

Neogene The Neogene ( ), informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary, is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago ( Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya. ...

period. It is notable for the famous Sharktooth Hill deposit (otherwise known as Ernst Quarry).

Fossils

Vertebrates

Cartilagenous fishes

= Sharks

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Carcharias ''Carcharias'' is a genus of sand tiger sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae. Once bearing many prehistoric species, all have gone extinct with the exception of the critically endangered sand tiger shark. Description ''Carcharias'' ar ...

'' * '' Cephaloscyllium'' * '' Cetorhinus'' * †'' Carcharocles megalodon'' Boessenecker, Ehret, D, Long, D, Churchill, M, Martin, E, Boessenecker, S. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark ''Otodus megalodon'': a view from the eastern north Pacific. PeerJ. 2019 Feb 13;7:e6088. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6088. eCollection 2019. * †'' Galeocerdo aduncus'' * †'' Hemipristis serra'' * '' Heterodontus'' * '' Hexanchus'' * †''

Isurus desori ''Isurus'' is a genus of mackerel sharks in the family Lamnidae, commonly known as the mako sharks. Description The two living species are the common shortfin mako shark (''I. oxyrinchus'') and the rare longfin mako shark (''I. paucus''). They ...

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Isurus hastalis ''Cosmopolitodus'' is an extinct genus of mackerel shark that lived between thirty to one million years ago during the late Oligocene to the Early Pleistocene epochs. Its type species is ''Cosmopolitodus hastalis'', the broad-tooth mako (other ...

'' * †'' Isurus planus''Malchow, A. 2009. MIOCENE SHARK TOOTH HILL LOCALITY, KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Geological Society of America North-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009) * ''

Megachasma ''Megachasma'' is a genus of sharks. It is usually considered to be the sole genus in the distinct family Megachasmidae, though suggestion has been made that it may belong in the family Cetorhinidae, of which the basking shark is currently the so ...

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Notorhynchus The broadnose sevengill shark (''Notorynchus cepedianus'') is the only extant member of the genus ''Notorynchus'', in the family Hexanchidae. It is recognizable because of its seven gill slits, while most shark species have five gill slits, w ...

'' * †'' Parotodus benedenii'' * '' Scyliorhinus'' * '' Squalus'' * '' Squatina''

= Rays and skates

= * '' Dasyatis'' * '' Myliobatis''

Reptiles

* '' Pacifichelys'' * †'' Chelonia californiensis'' * †''

Syllomus aegyptiacus ''Syllomus'' is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Miocene-age deposits in the US Eastern Seaboard and Egypt. Taxonomy Two species are known, ''Syllomus aegyptiacus'' (Lydekker, 1889) and ''S. crispatus'' Cope, 1896. Lapparent de Broin ( ...

Birds

* †'' Diomedea californica'' ** †''D. milleri'' * †'' Fulmarus miocaenus'' * †'' Hadrogyps aigialerus'' * †'' Megalodytes morejohni''Stegall, J. 2016. Fossil Birds of the Mojave Desert & Environs. Murturango Press, Ridgecrest, California. * †''

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Osteodontornis orri ''Osteodontornis'' is an extinct seabird genus. It contains a single named species, ''Osteodontornis orri'' (Orr's bony-toothed bird, in literal translation of its scientific name), which was described quite exactly one century after the first ...

'' * †'' Pandion homalopteron'' * †'' Presbychen abavus'' * †''

Puffinus inceptor ''Puffinus'' is a genus of seabirds in the order Procellariiformes that contains about 20 small to medium-sized shearwaters. Two other shearwater genera are named: '' Calonectris'', which comprises three or four large shearwaters, and '' Arden ...

'' ** †''P. milleri'' ** †''P. priscus'' Hypohippus

Mammals

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Allodesmus kernensis ''Allodesmus'' is an extinct genus of pinniped from the middle to late Miocene of California and Japan that belongs to the extinct pinniped family Desmatophocidae. Description and biology ''Allodesmus'' measured about long and weighed . ...

'' * †'' Bouromeryx americanus'' * †'' Hypohippus'' * †'' Miotapirus'' * †''

Paleoparadoxia tabatai ''Paleoparadoxia'' ("ancient paradox") is a genus of large, herbivorous aquatic mammals that inhabited the northern Pacific coastal region during the Miocene epoch (). It ranged from the waters of Japan (Tsuyama and Yanagawa), to Alaska in ...

'' * †'' Paratomarctus temerarius'' * †''

Pelagiarctos thomasi ''Pelagiarctos'' was a genus of walrus that lived during the Mid Miocene, approx. 13-15 mya. Its remains have been found in the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, in Kern County, California. It was originally described as an Otariidae, though it is no ...

''L. G. Barnes. 1988. A new fossil pinniped (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California. Contributions in Science 396:1-11 * †'' Aulophyseter morricei'' * †'' Oedolithax mira'' * †''Loxolithax sinuosa'' * †''

Parietobalaena ''Parietobalaena'' is an extinct genus of baleen whale, belonging to the family Pelocetidae. Fossils are found in Miocene-aged marine strata in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonk ...

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References

External links

* {{Neogene Footer Geologic formations of California Neogene stratigraphic units of North America Shale formations of the United States Miocene California Paleogene California Geology of Kern County, California Geography of the San Joaquin Valley Paleontology in California Temblor Range