Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.4° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 121.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Clara Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Santa Clara Fm, which is a lateral equivalent of the Merced Fm, and overlies the Monterey Shale (Miocene). AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the several hundred ft above the base of the Santa Clara Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• TAPHONOMY: Bed consists principally of broken pelecypod shells.

Collected by Arnold & Hoover in 1908; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: R. Arnold & T.J. Hoover, 1908. REPOSITORY: Stanford University (now CAS).

Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1969. Late Pliocene mollusks from San Francisco Peninsula, California, and their paleogeographic significance. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 37(3):57-93 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96574: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010

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