Where: Ventura County, California (35.7° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 114.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Pecten zone, upper Vaqueros
Environment/lithology: coastal; coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Victor Barlow and W. H. Corey; 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 238210: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 15.01.2025
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 jingle | |
"Pecten (Lyropecten) miguelensis" = Lyropecten miguelensis, "Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni subandersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni subandersoni, Pecten (Pecten) vanvlecki
"Pecten (Lyropecten) miguelensis" = Lyropecten miguelensis Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni subandersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni subandersoni Loel and Corey 1932 scallop
Pecten (Pecten) vanvlecki Arnold 1908 scallop | |
"Mytilus expansus" = Crenomytilus expansus
"Mytilus expansus" = Crenomytilus expansus Arnold 1907 mussel |