Location #64-6 - SE Central Santa Rosa Island (Rincon Fm): Chattian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella temblorensis
Wiedey 1928
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Subspecies: Turritella temblorensis tritschi | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Rapana vaquerosensis
(Arnold 1908)
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recombined as Califrapana vaquerosensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Barbara |
Coordinates: | 34.7° North, 120.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.3° North, 112.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Rincon | Member: | Lower | ||
Local section: | SE Central Santa Rosa Island | ||||
Regional section: | Santa Barbara | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: From lower Rincon Formation = upper Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black,brown,gray lithified mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Highly fractured dark brown, gray, to black weathering mudstone and siltstone. | |
Environment: | offshore |
Geology comments: Offshore siliciclastic environment. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: Collected by Avila and Weaver (1964). Not sure of any repositories. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Nomenclature appears reasonable. Unsure of identifier. |
Metadata
Database number: | 52396 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-04 18:23:10 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-04 18:23:09 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14094. | D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |