Location #67-53 - Tecolote West (Rincon Fm) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 111.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Rincon Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• From lower part of section, in lower Rincon Formation, from lowermost Saucesian. Saucesian=latest Oligocene to earliest Miocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown, gray mudstone

• Offshore siliciclastic environment.
• Highly fractured dark brown, gray, to black weathering mudstone and siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1967). Not sure of any repositories.

Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52383: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Nomenclature appears reasonable. Unsure of identifier.
Gastropoda
 Patellida - Lottiidae
Acmaea sp. Eschscholtz 1830 limpet
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polinices recluzianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices recluzianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
Subspecies: Polinices recluzianus andersoni
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus perrini Wiedey 1928 scallop
Lyropecten pretiosus Hertlein 1925 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster