Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.7° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 112.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Rincon Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• From near top of lower Rincon Formation = upper Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown, gray mudstone
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 52402: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadidea sp. Turton 1819 clam | |
Dosinia sp., "Clementia pertenuis" = Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
"Clementia pertenuis" = Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam Subspecies: Clementia pertenuis conradiana
| |
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Panope cf. generosa" = Panopea generosa
"Panope cf. generosa" = Panopea generosa Gould 1850 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Bruclarkia sp. Trask 1926 snail | |
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail |