Also known as UCMP IP6968

Where: Monterey County, California (35.9° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 116.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Santa Margarita Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• In Vineyard Canyon the Santa Margarita Formation underlies fossiliferous Pancho Rico Formation. Collections are from a giant-oyster biostrome at the top of the Santa Margarita in Vineyard Canyon (USGS loc. M1968 [12 ft. stratigraphically below

•M1969]).

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 195407: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 07.08.2018

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