Also known as USGS# 18477; K6
Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 111.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sespe Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Fms, which overlie the Santiago Fm (Eocene) and is overlain by the Topanga Fm (Middle Miocene). AGE: Late Eocene-Early Miocene, on the basis of vertebrate and molluscan biostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlations; most macrofossils come from the uppermost part of this undifferentiated unit and are suggested to be Early Miocene in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kinney, Schoelhammer, & Woodring; reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: D.M. Kinney, J.E. Schoelhammer, & W.P. Woodring. REPOSITORY: USGS.
Primary reference: J. E. Schoellhamer, J. G. Vedder, R. F. Yerkes and D. M. Kinney. 1981. Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 420(D):1-109 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94854: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) filosa Gabb 1866 slipper shell | |
"Terebra santana" = Clavocerithium santana
"Terebra santana" = Clavocerithium santana Loel and Corey 1932 cerith snail | |
Turritella (Torcula) inezana Conrad 1857 turret shell SUBSPECIES: Turritella (Torcula) inezana santana
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"Ocenebra topangensis" = Purpura topangensis
"Ocenebra topangensis" = Purpura topangensis Arnold 1907 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Saxidomus aff. vaquerosensis, "Dosinia margaritana" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana, Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana
Saxidomus aff. vaquerosensis Arnold 1909 venus clam
"Dosinia margaritana" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana Wiedey 1928 venus clam
Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana Conrad 1856 venus clam | |
Crenomytilus cf. expansus Arnold 1907 mussel | |
"Anadara (Larkinia) santana" = Anadara santana
"Anadara (Larkinia) santana" = Anadara santana Loel and Corey 1932 ark | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |