Also known as USGS 15037; R575
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 119.6° 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
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 207654: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.01.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Protothaca cf. staleyi" = Leukoma staleyi
"Protothaca cf. staleyi" = Leukoma staleyi Gabb 1866 venus clam | |
Cryptomya cf. californica Conrad 1837 softshell clam | |
Parvilucina cf. tenuisculpta Carpenter 1864 clam | |
Anadara trilineata Conrad 1856 ark |