Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.2° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 113.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: San Lorenzo Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• Stratigraphically 466 feet below top of San Lorenzo formation, 4 feet above stream level, in dark gray, massive siltstone forming vertical wall.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: F. R. Sullivan. 1962. Foraminifera from the type section of the San Lorenzo Formation, Santa Cruz County, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(4):233-352 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185217: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Foraminifera | |
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Marginulina eximia Neugeboren 1851 | |
| Globothalamea | |
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Anomalina californiensis Cushman and Hobson 1935 | |
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Eponides kleinpelli Cushman and Frizzell 1940 | |
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| Foraminifera | |
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Karreriella barbati Cushman 1936 | |
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? Discammina eocenica Mllory 1959 | |
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Plectina cf. ruthenica Reuss 1851 | |
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Reophax cf. pilulifer Brady 1884 | |
| Nodosariata | |
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Robulus warmani Barbat and von Estorff 1933
Nodosaria holserica Schwager 1866 | |
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Plectofrondicularia vaughani Cushman 1927
Plectofrondicularia miocenica Cushman 1926 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Virgulina bramlettei Galloway and Morrey 1929 | |
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Cyclammina cf. incisa Stache 1864
Cyclammina clarki Hanna 1923 | |
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Cassidulina crassipunctata Cushman and Hobson 1935 | |