Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wygal Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Wygal Sst Mbr which regionally overlies the Cymric Shale and is overlain by the Santos Shale of the lower (type) Temblor Fm (Late Oligocene-Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: From bed of unknown thickness within member that ranges between 20 and 40 ft in thickness. AGE: Late Oligocene; lower Zemorian foraminiferal staghe, Blakeley molluscan stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from about 10-30 ft above the base.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP, USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: W. O. Addicott (1971). REPOSITORY: USGS, USNM and UCMP amongst other collections.
Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72408: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Acila (Truncacila) muta Clark 1918 divaricate nutclam | |
Yoldia (Kalayoldia) tenuissima Clark 1918 clam | |
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam
Here excavata Carpenter 1857 clam | |
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata, Tellina (Tellinella) ? tenuilineata, "Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata Conrad 1849 tellin clam
Tellina (Tellinella) ? tenuilineata Clark 1918 tellin clam
"Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata Clark 1918 tellin clam | |
? Pseudocardium sp., "Spisula cf. albaria" = Mactromeris albaria
? Pseudocardium sp. Gabb 1866 clam
"Spisula cf. albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam | |
Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi, Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis, Amiantis "n. sp.", Amiantis ? mathewsoni, Pitar (Katherinella) cf. californica
Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi Gabb 1866 venus clam
Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam
Amiantis "n. sp." Carpenter 1863 venus clam
Amiantis ? mathewsoni Gabb 1866 venus clam
Pitar (Katherinella) cf. californica Clark 1918 venus clam | |
"Felaniella harfordi" = Felaniella (Felaniella) harfordi
"Felaniella harfordi" = Felaniella (Felaniella) harfordi Anderson 1905 clam | |
"Solen aff. gravidus" = Solena (Plectosolen) gravidus
"Solen aff. gravidus" = Solena (Plectosolen) gravidus Clark 1918 clam | |
Panopea ? ramonensis Clark 1925 clam | |
"Crassostrea eldridgei" = Crenostrea eldridgei
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Vertipecten alexclarki Addicott 1973 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Tegula "n. sp." Lesson 1835 snail |