Also known as D-1050
Where: Fresno County, California (36.0° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 115.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Temblor Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• From thin caliche covered ledges interbedded with possly fossiliferous sandstone. Total interval is about 20 ft thick, and overlain by white, fine-grained sandstone. From faunizone B (zone 3) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal 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 44937: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni Arnold 1906 scallop | |
"Miltha sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis
"Miltha sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis Arnold 1909 clam | |
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"Dosinia sp." = Dosinia, "Dosinia (Dosinidia) mathewsoni" = Dosinia, Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana, "Amiantis diabloensis" = Pitar diabloensis, Saxidomus vaquerosensis, Clementia (Egesta) conradiana
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) mathewsoni" = Dosinia venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam
"Amiantis diabloensis" = Pitar diabloensis Anderson 1905 venus clam
Saxidomus vaquerosensis Arnold 1909 venus clam
Clementia (Egesta) conradiana Anderson 1905 venus clam |