Capitola 3: Zanclean, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Valenictus sp.
Mitchell 1961
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Valenictus cf. sheperdi
Boessenecker et al. 2024
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Boessenecker et al. 2024 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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? Balaenoptera bertae
Boessenecker 2013
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Boessenecker 2013 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Marzanoptera bertae | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius grammatus
(Dall 1917)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Mitrella gausapata
(Gould 1850)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Protothaca staleyi
(Gabb 1866)
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| recombined as Leukoma staleyi | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula coosensis
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara trilineata
(Conrad 1856)
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 121.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.7° North, 120.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Purisima | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age originally entered as Messinian following Boessnecker et al. 2013; explicitly updated to Zanclean in Boessenecker 2017. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: "shell bed containing abundant mollusks" | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: strong influence of physical processes (waves, etc.) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | V99868 | ||
| Database number: | 153705 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-01-09 08:53:12 | Last modified: | 2017-06-15 13:27:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-09 08:53:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62457. | R. W. Boessenecker. 2017. A new early Pliocene record of the toothless walrus Valenictus (Carnivora, Odobenidae) from the Purisima Formation of northern California. PaleoBios 34:1-6 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 49737 | R. W. Boessenecker. 2013. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas 35(4):815-939 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 87409 | R. W. Boessenecker, A. W. Poust, S. J. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2024. Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene–Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (U.S.A.): a new species of the toothless walrus Valenictus and the oldest records of Odobeninae and Odobenini. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e2296567)1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |