UCMP loc. A251, Wiley Canyon, Oak Ridge (Miocene of the United States)

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

• in lower green shaley 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
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella inezana Conrad 1857 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus perrini, "Pecten (Chlamys) sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis
Spondylus perrini Wiedey 1928 scallop
"Pecten (Chlamys) sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis Arnold 1906 scallop