UCMP loc. A299, CaƱada de las Cruces, Santa Ynez Mountains (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.5° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 114.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; green conglomerate

• basal green conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. H. Corey, J. R. Dorrance, Wayne Loel, and Victor Barlow; 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 238173: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 14.01.2025

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Lyropecten) magnolia" = Macrochlamis magnolia
"Pecten (Lyropecten) magnolia" = Macrochlamis magnolia Conrad 1857 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea eldridgei ynezana" = Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) ynezana
"Ostrea eldridgei ynezana" = Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) ynezana Loel and Corey 1932 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea vaquerosensis" = Crassostrea vaquerosensis
"Ostrea vaquerosensis" = Crassostrea vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus ynezianus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus
"Modiolus ynezianus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus Arnold 1908 mussel
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis
"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis Arnold 1908 murex snail