Location #67-26 - Southeast coast of Santa Rosa Island (Monterey Fm) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.7° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 113.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Monterey Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• From lower Montery Formation = middle Relizian. Relizian = early Miocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray, carbonaceous shale

• Offshore siliciclastic environment.
• Very fine grayish-brown formaniferal shale.

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 52410: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Nomenclature appears reasonable. Unsure of identifier.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten miguelensis" = Lyropecten miguelensis, "Pecten cf. crassicardo" = Lyropecten crassicardo
"Pecten miguelensis" = Lyropecten miguelensis Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten cf. crassicardo" = Lyropecten crassicardo Conrad 1856 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster