South of Capistrano Beach (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Orange County, California (33.5° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 115.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Capistrano Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• "Upper Miocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, diatomaceous, muddy shale

• "The accumulated foraminiferal fauna suggests... a deposit accumulated on a sea floor probably below the one hundred fathom contour... deep water where current was practically lacking"
• "finely laminated diatomaceous shale and mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. L. Hubbs in 1950; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (float),

• fossils were found from "the very near vicinity" of each other, but petrel is from a slab that "had fallen from the cliff"

Primary reference: L. Miller. 1951. A Miocene petrel from California. Condor 53(2):78-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85204: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.12.2008, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Pleuroncodes sp.
Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
Cyclothone sp.
Cyclothone sp. Goode and Bean 1883
 Beryciformes - Melamphaidae
Scopelogadus capistranensis n. sp.
Scopelogadus capistranensis n. sp. Ebeling 1962
Aves
 Procellariiformes - Hydrobatidae
Oceanodroma hubbsi n. sp.
Oceanodroma hubbsi n. sp. Miller 1951 storm petrel