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: Vaqueros Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• From Vaqueros Formation = middle Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1964). 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 52415: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chione aff. richthofeni" = Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni, "Clementia pertenuis" = Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis
"Chione aff. richthofeni" = Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni Hertlein and Jordan 1927 venus clam
"Clementia pertenuis" = Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam Subspecies: Clementia pertenuis conradiana
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
"Polinices recluzianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices recluzianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail Subspecies: Polinices recluzianus andersoni
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"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis
"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis Arnold 1908 murex snail |