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TEJOS FolLVA TKiX. 

 TYPK LOCALITY. 



The typo locality is in the region about Fort Tejon. Kern County, Cal. 



NAME AND DESf'KIPTION . 



This formation was named and described by .1. D. Whitney in California 

 Geological Survey, Paleontology, vol. 2, 18f>9, preface, p. xiii. 



DKKINITIOX. 



The (irininal detinition and description of this formation is as follows: 



" The Tejon group * * * the division B of Paleontology, volume 1, is peculiar 

 to (California. It is found most extensively developed in the vicinity of Fort Tejon 

 and about Martinez. From the latter locality it forms an almost continuous belt 

 in the Coast Ranges to Marshs, 15 miles east of Mount Diablo, where it sinks under 

 the San Joa(|uin plain. It was also discovered by the difierent members of the 

 Survey at various points on the eastern face of the same range as far south as New 

 Idria, and in the summer of 1866 by Mr. Gabb in Mendocino County, near Round 

 Valley, the latter locality being- the most northern point at which it i.s as yet known. 



''Thi.s group contains a large and highly characteristic series of fossils, the 

 larger part peculiar to itself, while ii considerable percentage is found extending 

 below into the next group (Martinez) * * *.'" 



LOCALITIES. 



Fcjrt Tejun, Uvas Pass, and San Emidiu, Keru County. 



Marysville Buttes, Sutter County. 



Pierced Fall.«, Merced County. 



Martinez, Somersville, Clayton, and Marshs, Contra Costa County. 



Xew Idria and Griswold, San Benito County. 



Coalinga and San Joaquin coal mines, Fresno County. 



North side of Sisar Valley, Ventura County. 



North side Santa .\na Mountains, 4 miles south and 5 miles northwest of Corona, Riverside 



County. 

 San Luis Rey to San Diego, Rose Canyon and Point Loma Peninsula, San Iliego County. 

 Peninsula of Lower California, latitude 29° 30'. 

 Port Crescent, Clallam County; Little Falls, Lewis County, and Oakville, Chehalis County, Wash. 



(Landes and .Arnold). 



In Oregon at the following localities, according to Diller (1896): 



Xehalem River, .5 miles east of Nehalem, and also midway between Jewell and Jlishawaka. 



Wilson Hiver toll road, 22 miles from Tillamook. 



Vineyard Hill, 4 miles north of Corvallis. 



Benson's and Howe's, b miles north of Corvallis. 



Scott's, Cooper's, and Newton's, southwe.st of Corvallis. 



Roger's, in section 27, T. 13 S., R. 6 W. 



Monroe, Comstock, Cleveland, Callahan's, and Camas, Douglas County. 



Near mouth of Little River, 20 miles northeast of Roseburg. 



Marshtield, Jordan Point, and Cape Arago, southward to near mouth of Coquille River. 



