“…The Bouse Formation contains casts of vegetation fragments; ostracodes (Cyprideis) and reworked Cretaceous coccoliths were reported from an outcrop of the formation 2 km west of the Topock quadrangle (Smith, 1970;Winterer, 1975, Howard and Malmon, 2007). The lower claystone and sandstone subunit of the facies of Santa Fe Railway (Trbfl) at the north edge of the quadrangle yielded remains of fish, pond turtle, rodent, and lizard, as well as bivalves and water reeds (R.E.…”