Locality D-1206 - Reef Ridge (Monterey Formation): Late/Upper Miocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Calliostoma pacificum Anderson and Martin 1914
r category
recombined as Homalopoma pacifica
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea filosa (Gabb 1866)
r category
Calyptraea inornata (Gabb 1869)
c category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella wittichi Hertlein and Jordan 1927
f category
synonym of Turritella ocoyana
Turritella bosei Hertlein and Jordan 1927
f category
synonym of Turritella ocoyana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna sp. Lovén 1846
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lyropecten crassicardo (Conrad 1856)
c category
Subspecies: Lyropecten crassicardo nomlandi
Aequipecten raymondi (Clark 1915)
f category
synonym of Pacipecten discus
Aequipecten raymondi (Clark 1915)
r category
synonym of Pacipecten discus
Subspecies: Aequipecten raymondi brionianus
Aequipecten andersoni (Arnold 1906)
f category
recombined as Pacipecten andersoni
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Zirfaea sp. Gray 1842
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis (Gabb 1864)
r category
original and current combination Dosinia pertenuis
Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami Clark 1915
c category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta parilis (Conrad 1848)
c category
Lucina parilis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina salmonea (Carpenter 1864)
r category
synonym of Cadella nuculoides
Macoma andersoni Clark 1915
r category
recombined as Macoma (Rexithaerus) andersoni
unclassified
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus (Balanus) gregarius
c category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Fresno
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 120.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 117.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Monterey Member:McClure Shale
Regional section:Reef Ridge
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Beds crop out along the gully which runs up the north slope of Tar Peak at an elevation fo about 2,100 ft. These beds overlier outcrops of typical Temblor coarse, calcareous sandstone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray lithified silty,calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: From hard, calcareous, brownish-gray, fine silty sandstone with some interbedded silty shale and few pebbles.
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: The siliceous shale of the McLure shale was deposited in deep (bathyal or upper neritic) waters.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collection method comments: Collections reposited in UCMP collections. Collected and identified by Adegoke.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive. Key: c=common, f=few, r=rare
Metadata
Also known as:D-1206
Database number:44425
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-10 10:50:48 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-10 10:50:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11669. O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]