USGS loc. M3636, Chico Martinez Creek: Late Oligocene, California
collected by R. L. Pierce and T. W. Dibblee, Jr.,; W. O. Addicott 1967; 1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Siphonaliidae
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Bruclarkia seattlensis
Durham 1944
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Yoldiidae
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Yoldia (Kalayoldia) tenuissima
(Clark 1918)
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| questionable occurrence | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucinoma acutilineata
(Conrad 1849)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula cf. albaria
(Conrad 1848)
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Spisula cf. rushi
Wagner and Schilling 1923
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Vertipecten alexclarki
Addicott 1973
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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? Crenomytilus cf. arnoldi
(Clark 1918)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Kern |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 119.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° North, 111.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Temblor | Member: | Wygal Sandstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified based on figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Warm, shallow-water depositional environment - less than 20 fathoms and possibly much shallower. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USGS,USNM | ||
| Collectors: | R. L. Pierce and T. W. Dibblee, Jr.,; W. O. Addicott | Collection dates: | 1967; 1971 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 219734 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-04-20 11:59:37 | Last modified: | 2021-04-20 11:59:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-04-20 11:59:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24557. | W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |