USGS 14631 - Casmalia Hills [Careaga Sandstone] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Woodring Loc. 165; W33a

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 119.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cebada Member (Careaga Sandstone Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cebada Member of the Careaga Sandstone, which overlies the Foxen Mudstone (mid-late Pliocene) and underlies the Paso Robles Fm (Pleistocene). AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of foraminiferal and macrofossil biostratigraphy.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty sandstone

• PALEOENVIRONMENT: Established on the basis of faunal composition.
• LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Assumed poorly lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by W. Woodring; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Not reported, but assumed to be W. Woodring. REPOSITORY: Smithsonian (USNM).

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring and M.N. Bramlette. 1950. Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 222:1-185 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189556: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for macrofossils. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten hemphilli" = Euvola bella, "Chlamys ? hastatus" = Chlamys hastata, Patinopecten healeyi
"Pecten hemphilli" = Euvola bella Conrad 1856 scallop
"Chlamys ? hastatus" = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop
Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina Conrad 1855 oyster