Where: Ventura County, California (35.8° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 110.9° 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 238250: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 15.01.2025
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Anomia vaquerosensis Loel and Corey 1932 jingle | |
"Mytilus hamlini" = Mytilus (Mytilus) loeli
"Mytilus hamlini" = Mytilus (Mytilus) loeli Grant, IV 1930 mussel | |
"Phacoides (Miltha) sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis
"Phacoides (Miltha) sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis Arnold 1909 clam |