Also known as CAS 1150
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 109.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 203414: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.08.2019, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
Lytechinus pictus, Lytechinus coreyi n. sp.
Lytechinus pictus Verrill 1867 sea urchin
Lytechinus coreyi n. sp. Grant and Hertlein 1938 sea urchin | |
Brissus latecarinatus, Brissus kewi n. sp.
Brissus latecarinatus Leske 1778 heart urchin
Brissus kewi n. sp. Grant and Hertlein 1938 heart urchin | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Alectrion churchi n. sp." = Nassarius (Catilon) churchi1
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| Bivalvia | |
Placunanomia granti n. sp.1
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