Also known as SUPTC 9754
Where: Monterey County, California (36.2° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 116.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Pancho Rico Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Described in reference as Pliocene. Pancho Rico Formation is Miocene per Addicott 1978 (Geological Survey Bulletin, Issue 1457).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
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 195417: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 07.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ceratostoma foliatum Gmelin 1791 murex snail |