Where: Ventura County, California (34.4° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 112.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. H. Oorey, F. R. Stockton, a.nd D. D. Oorey; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: W. Loel and W. H. Corey. 1932. The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 22(3):31-410 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 237916: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.12.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella inezana Conrad 1857 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 jingle | |
Spondylus perrini, "Pecten (Chlamys) sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis
Spondylus perrini Wiedey 1928 scallop
"Pecten (Chlamys) sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis Arnold 1906 scallop |