Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 111.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Rincon Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• From very base of section, in lower Rincon Formation, from upper Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1967). Not sure of any repositories.
Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52387: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus perrini Wiedey 1928 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
? Astraea sp. Röding 1798 snail |