Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wygal Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Howard Sonneman and W. O. Addicott in 1967; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219731: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis
"Dentalium laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis Hickman 1969 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam | |
"Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata, "Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata
"Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata Clark 1918 tellin clam
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata Conrad 1849 tellin clam | |
Vertipecten alexclarki n. sp.
Vertipecten alexclarki n. sp. Addicott 1973 scallop | |
Anadara (Anadara) submontereyana Clark 1918 ark | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell
Crepidula cf. ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell |