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