Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 117.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lompico Sandstone Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• About 6 m stratigraphically below M5068. Up to 240 m thick; intertongues with Monterey Formation; angular unconformity with Butano Sandstone below; noncomformably overlies crystaline basement in places, also Locatelli Formation and Zayante Sandstone; conformably overlain by Monterey Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; medium-grained, gray, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Also collections at USGS, Menlo Park
Primary reference: J. C. Clark. 1981. Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1168:1-51 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37530: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara (Cunearca) rivulata" = Scapharca (Cunearca) rivulata
"Anadara (Cunearca) rivulata" = Scapharca (Cunearca) rivulata Wiedey 1928 ark | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cf. ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell |