Locality D-1052 - Reef Ridge (Temblor Formation) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as D-1052

Where: Fresno County, California (35.9° 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)

• Sandstone ledge about 50 ft stratigraphically above D-1051. This the highest Temblor Formation ledge exposed on this ridge. From faunizone B (zone 4) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, gray, blue, silty, calcareous 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.
• Bluish-gray, fine-grained, silty, and calcareous sandtsone.

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 44965: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for echinodermata and mollusca. Key to abundance: c=common; f=few; r=rare.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
doubtful determination
Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami Clark 1915 venus clam
Tivela sp. Link 1807 venus clam
doubtful determination
Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam
"Amiantis diabloensis" = Pitar diabloensis Anderson 1905 venus clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
doubtful determination
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus ynezianus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus Arnold 1908 mussel
Subspecies: Modiolus ynezianus garzaensis; doubtful determination
Septifer sp. Récluz 1848 mussel
doubtful determination
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti
"Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti Dall 1909 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni Arnold 1906 scallop