Where: Ventura County, California (35.4° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 114.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. E. Lake and 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 220082: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 03.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Dosinia margaritana n. sp." = Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana
"Dosinia margaritana n. sp." = Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam |