Also known as UCMP IP6640
Where: Monterey County, California (36.2° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 119.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Pancho Rico Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Described in reference as Pliocene. Pancho Rico Formation is Miocene per Addicott 1978 (Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 1457). AGE: Revised to Messian consistent with EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 06/2020].
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. L Durham in 1959
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 194798: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 29.06.2018
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Lyropecten sp. Conrad 1862 scallop | |
? Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
? Cryptomya sp. Conrad 1848 softshell clam | |
Macoma nasuta Conrad 1837 tellin clam | |
"Protothaca tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima
"Protothaca tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima Carpenter 1857 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bittium cf. casmaliense" = Lirobittium casmaliense
"Bittium cf. casmaliense" = Lirobittium casmaliense Bartsch 1911 snail | |
? Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Calicantharus cf. fortis Carpenter 1866 snail | |
? Clavus coalingensis Arnold 1909 snail | |
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell |