Locality D-1060 - Reef Ridge (Temblor Formation): Middle Miocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Echinarachniidae
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Vaquerosella durhami
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f category | |||||||||
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Vaquerosella sp.
Durham 1955
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| doubtful determination | ||||||||||
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Vaquerosella merriami
(Anderson 1905)
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f category | |||||||||
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Vaquerosella andersoni
(Clark and Twitchell 1915)
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r category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Aequipecten andersoni
(Arnold 1906)
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c category | |||||||||
| recombined as Pacipecten andersoni | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panope abrupta
(Conrad 1849)
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r category | |||||||||
| recombined as Panopea abrupta | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra sectoris
Anderson and Martin 1914
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f category | |||||||||
| recombined as Mactromeris sectoris | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Dosinia sp.
Scopoli 1777
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| doubtful determination | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma sp.
Leach 1819
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| doubtful determination | ||||||||||
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Tellina wilsoni
Anderson and Martin 1914
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| doubtful determination | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Fresno |
| Coordinates: | 35.9° North, 120.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 115.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Temblor | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Sandstone, more fossiliferous towards top, from 70-80 ft above Turritella ledges (D-1059). From faunizone B (zone 3) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,brown sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray,red siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Massive, dark brown, coarse-grained sandstone with layers of gray button bearing sandstone or orange and gray silty lenses, more fossiliferous towards top. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: Deposited in partially enclosed bay. The fauna has a preponderance of shallow-water forms and many of the genera are characteristic of tropical or subtropical climate. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Collection method comments: Collected by O. Adegoke. Collectetions reposited at UCMP. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for echinodermata and mollusca. Key to abundance: c=common; f=few; r=rare.
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Metadata
| Also known as: | D-1060 | ||
| Database number: | 44935 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-09-20 21:38:37 | Last modified: | 2020-11-06 13:19:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-09-20 21:38:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11669. | O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |