Also known as UCMP IP6653
Where: Monterey County, California (36.0° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 116.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Pancho Rico Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Described in reference as Pliocene. Pancho Rico Formation is Miocene per Addicott 1978 (Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 1457).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. L. Rice in 1960
Primary reference: D. L. Durham and W. O. Addicott. 1965. Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 524(A):A1-A22 [P. Holroyd/S. Tremblay]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194799: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 29.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Maxillopoda | |
Balanus gregarius barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
"Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea
"Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop | |
"Ostrea atwoodi" = Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii
"Ostrea atwoodi" = Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii Gabb 1866 oyster | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Crucibulum "n. sp. ?" Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Turritella vanvlecki, "Turritella gonostoma" = Turritella (Broderiptella) gonostoma
Turritella vanvlecki turret shell
"Turritella gonostoma" = Turritella (Broderiptella) gonostoma Valenciennes 1832 turret shell hemphilli
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Echinoidea | |
"Astrodapsis crassus" = Astrodapsis arnoldi crassus
"Astrodapsis crassus" = Astrodapsis arnoldi crassus Kew 1920 sand dollar |