Where: Kern County, California (35.3° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 114.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Freeman Silt Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• The type section for the Freeman Silt comprises 328 ft of core. This interval consists of massive gray micaceous sandy to clayey shale (siltstone?). Overlies the Jewett Sand and is overlain by the Oclese Sand above.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; concretionary, micaceous, gray, silty, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Reposited in the CAS, LACM, UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections housed at various institutes: USGS (Wasington and Menlo Park), UCMP, LACM, CAS, Stanford University, UCLA, UCR.
Primary reference: W.O. Addicott. 1970. Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642:1-172 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38028: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Priscofusus medialis Conrad 1849 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana ochsneri" = Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri
"Nuculana ochsneri" = Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri Anderson and Martin 1914 pointed nut clam | |
"Acila conradi" = Acila (Truncacila) conradi
"Acila conradi" = Acila (Truncacila) conradi Meek 1864 divaricate nutclam | |
Katherinella angustifrons Conrad 1849 venus clam | |
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata Conrad 1849 tellin clam | |
Cyclocardia subtenta Conrad 1849 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Delectopecten peckhami Gabb 1869 scallop |