Where: Ventura County, California (35.8° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 114.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous siliciclastic sediments
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 238246: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 15.01.2025
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis
"Rapana vaquerosensis" = Califrapana vaquerosensis Arnold 1908 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 jingle | |
Spondylus perrini Wiedey 1928 scallop | |
"Mytilus expansus" = Crenomytilus expansus
"Mytilus expansus" = Crenomytilus expansus Arnold 1907 mussel | |
"Panope cf. generosa" = Panopea generosa
"Panope cf. generosa" = Panopea generosa Gould 1850 clam |