Where: Ventura County, California (34.4° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 112.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Vaqueros Fm, which gradationally overlies the Sespe Fm (Oligocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Monterey Fm (Middle-?Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil and microfossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Representative of the entire formation at this section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone and lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Dickinson in 1963-1964; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: W.R. Dickinson, 1963-1964. REPOSITORY: Formerly Stanford University, probably now at CAS.

Primary reference: W. R. Dickinson and D. R. Lowe. 1966. Stratigraphic relations of phosphate- and gypsum-bearing Upper Miocene strata, upper Sespe Creek, Ventura County, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 50(11):2464-2481 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94816: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2010

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