Also known as D-1055
Where: California (35.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 114.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Temblor Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• From top of same massive silty sandstone bed as D-1054, about 20 ft stratigraphically above D-1054. From faunizone A (for that reason assigned an early Miocene age).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, brown, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Adegoke. Collections reposited in UCMP.
Primary reference: O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44897: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Vaquerosella merriami Anderson 1905 sand dollar
Vaquerosella andersoni Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Psammotreta (Florimetis) biangulata" = Leporimetis obesa
"Psammotreta (Florimetis) biangulata" = Leporimetis obesa Deshayes 1855 tellin clam doubtful determination
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Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam | |
"Corbicula dumblei" = Polymesoda dumblei
"Corbicula dumblei" = Polymesoda dumblei Anderson 1905 clam |