Locality D-1056 - Reef Ridge (Temblor Formation) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as D-1056

Where: Fresno County, 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)

• Locality is approx. 20 ft below the lower oyster bed of locality D-1057. From faunizone A (zone 2) (for that reason assigned an early Miocene age).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

• Deposited in partially enclosed bay. The fauna has a preponderance of shallow-water forms and many of the genera are characteristic of tropical or subtropical climate.
• Lithology not listed but is most likely a sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by O. Adegoke. Collectetions reposited at 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 44923: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for echinodermata and mollusca. Key to abundance: c=common; f=few; r=rare.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana ochsneri" = Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri
"Nuculana ochsneri" = Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri Anderson and Martin 1914 pointed nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus ynezianus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus
"Modiolus ynezianus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus Arnold 1908 mussel
Subspecies: Modiolus ynezianus garzaensis
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp., "Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti, Anadara (Anadara) devincta
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
doubtful determination
"Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti Dall 1909 ark
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele morani Anderson and Martin 1914 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Tellina wilsoni Anderson and Martin 1914 tellin clam
doubtful determination
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) mathewsonii" = Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi, Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) mathewsonii" = Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi Gabb 1866 venus clam
doubtful determination
Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Mactra sectoris" = Mactromeris sectoris, ""Spisula" abbotti" = Mactromeris abbotti, ""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria
"Mactra sectoris" = Mactromeris sectoris Anderson and Martin 1914 clam
doubtful determination
""Spisula" abbotti" = Mactromeris abbotti Wiedey 1928 clam
""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam