Also known as UCMP IP6653
Where: Monterey County, California (36.0° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 119.0° 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 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, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
"Astrodapsis crassus" = Astrodapsis arnoldi crassus
"Astrodapsis crassus" = Astrodapsis arnoldi crassus Kew 1920 sand dollar | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Ostrea atwoodi" = Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii
"Ostrea atwoodi" = Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii Gabb 1866 oyster | |
"Pecten (Lyropecten) crassicardo" = Lyropecten crassicardo, "Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus, "Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea
"Pecten (Lyropecten) crassicardo" = Lyropecten crassicardo Conrad 1856 scallop
"Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop
"Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella vanvlecki Arnold 1909 turret shell | |
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Crucibulum "n. sp. ?" Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |