Also known as UCMP IP7043
Where: Monterey County, California (35.7° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 118.9° 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, W. O. Addicott in 1964
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 195033: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 12.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
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Forreria sp. Jousseaume 1880 murex snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Miltha sp. Adams and Adams 1857 clam | |
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Dosinia cf. ponderosa Gray 1838 venus clam | |
"Florimetis biangulata" = Leporimetis obesa, ? Macoma nasuta
"Florimetis biangulata" = Leporimetis obesa Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
? Macoma nasuta Conrad 1837 tellin clam | |
"Lyropecten cf. estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus
"Lyropecten cf. estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop | |