USGS loc. M3281, Temblor Range (Oligocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Warm, shallow-water depositional environment - less than 20 fathoms and possibly much shallower.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified based on figured specimens.

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
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis
"Dentalium laneensis" = Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis Hickman 1969 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell
Crepidula cf. ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Vertipecten alexclarki n. sp. Addicott 1973 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"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