Also known as AB180605, Ed Davis Park at Towsley Canyon
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.4° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pico Formation, Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic; poorly lithified, concretionary sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, shellbed
Collected by Alexandra J. Buczek, Austin J. Hendy in 2017; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: A. Buczek, A. Hendy, M. Hopkins and J. Sessa. 2020. On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations. Geological Society America Bulletin 133(1-2):100-114 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 214265: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Alexandra Buczek on 21.09.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Lirobittium casmaliense Bartsch 1911 snail | |
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Crockerella conradiana Gabb 1866 snail | |
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Harfordia sp. Dall 1921 snail | |
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Cancellaria hemphilli Dall 1909 snail | |
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Turritella woodsi Lisson 1925 turret shell
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell | |
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Calliostoma ligatum Gould 1849 top snail | |
| Scaphopoda | |
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Dentalium neohexagonum Sharp and Pilsbry 1897 tusk shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Securella kanakoffi venus clam | |
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Dendostrea vespertina Conrad 1855 oyster | |
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Argopecten invalidus Hanna 1924 calico scallop
Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop | |