Also known as UCMP IP6671
Where: Monterey County, California (36.1° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° 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 194806: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 29.06.2018
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Margarites sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Calliostoma cf. etchegoinense top snail | |
Crucibulum "n. sp. ?" Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
Calyptraea filosa Gabb 1866 slipper shell | |
Crassispira sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
"Nassarius aff. californianus" = Caesia californiana
"Nassarius aff. californianus" = Caesia californiana Conrad 1856 snail | |
Ocenebra sp. Leach in Gray 1847 murex snail
? Forreria sp. Jousseaume 1880 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anadara trilineata Conrad 1856 ark | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
"Lucinisca "n. sp.? aff. nuttalli"" = Lucina (Lucinisca)
"Lucinisca "n. sp.? aff. nuttalli"" = Lucina (Lucinisca) Dall 1901 clam |