The formation regionally overlies the Chico Formation and regionally underlies the
Tejon Formation
The Tejon Formation is a Paleogene period geologic formation in California.
Geology
The formation regionally overlies the Martinez Formation or the Chico Formation.Ione Formation.
It is exposed in the
Clevelin Hills
The Clevelin Hills are a range of hills in the Peninsular Ranges System, within the Temescal Mountains in western Riverside County, in southern California.
The hills range from an elevation of over in the southeastern section, to the range's hi ...
in Riverside County,
Santa Ana Mountains
The Santa Ana Mountains are a short peninsular mountain range along the coast of Southern California in the United States. They extend for approximately southeast of the Los Angeles Basin largely along the border between Orange and Riverside co ...
Sacramento Delta
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in Contra Costa County.
Fossils
The formation 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 to the
Paleogene
The Paleogene ( ; British English, also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period, geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million yea ...
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of California, California, U.S.
Sites
See also
* Paleontology in California
References
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