Where: Los Angeles County, California (35.4° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 115.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Temblor Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Wm. Wiedey; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. W. Wiedey. 1928. Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(10):95-182 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 220066: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 03.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
"Arca rivulata n. sp." = Scapharca (Cunearca) rivulata, "Arca lakei n. sp." = Anadara (Anadara) lakei
"Arca rivulata n. sp." = Scapharca (Cunearca) rivulata Wiedey 1928 ark
"Arca lakei n. sp." = Anadara (Anadara) lakei Wiedey 1928 ark | |
? Clementia elongata n. sp.
? Clementia elongata n. sp. Wiedey 1928 venus clam | |
"Macoma copelandi n. sp." = Macoma (Rexithaerus) copelandi, "Macoma panzana n. sp." = Macoma (Rexithaerus) panzana
"Macoma copelandi n. sp." = Macoma (Rexithaerus) copelandi Wiedey 1928 tellin clam
"Macoma panzana n. sp." = Macoma (Rexithaerus) panzana Wiedey 1928 tellin clam | |
"Cardium arcumbona n. sp." = Trachycardium (Trachycardium) arcumbona
"Cardium arcumbona n. sp." = Trachycardium (Trachycardium) arcumbona Wiedey 1928 cockle | |
Panope tenuis n. sp.
Panope tenuis n. sp. Wiedey 1928 clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
Conus juanensis n. sp.
Conus juanensis n. sp. Wiedey 1928 cone shell | |