Also known as USGS M5052/M5053
Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.1° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 118.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Margarita Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Upper part of formation. Reaches a maximum thickness of 130 m; unconformably overlies granitic basement, Locatelli, and Monterey Formation; conformably overlain by Santa Cruz Mudstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray, white, 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 37543: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Solariella peramabilis" = Minolia peramabilis
"Solariella peramabilis" = Minolia peramabilis Carpenter 1864 snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
? Calicantharus sp. Clark 1938 snail | |
Nucella lamellosa Gmelin 1791 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop | |
Glycymeris grewingki Dall 1909 clam |