Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 111.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wygal Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Wygal Sandstone Member of the Temblor Formation, basal 3 ft.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. O. Addicott in 1971; 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 219739: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster | |
"Pecten (Pecten) sanctaecruzensis" = Oppenheimopecten sanctaecruzensis
"Pecten (Pecten) sanctaecruzensis" = Oppenheimopecten sanctaecruzensis Arnold 1906 scallop | |
Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis Arnold 1909 clam |