Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.7° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 112.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Rincon Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• From lower Rincon Formation = upper Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown, gray, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1967). Not sure of any repositories.
Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52399: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
"Pecten sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis, "Pecten hertleini" = Chlamys hertleini
"Pecten sespeensis" = Chlamys sespeensis Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten hertleini" = Chlamys hertleini Loel and Corey 1932 scallop |