Also known as Woodring Loc. 173; W663
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.8° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 119.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cebada Member (Careaga Sandstone Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cebada Member of the Careaga Sandstone, which overlies the Foxen Mudstone (mid-late Pliocene) and underlies the Paso Robles Fm (Pleistocene). AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of foraminiferal and microfossil biostratigraphy.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by W. Woodring; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Not reported, but assumed to be W. Woodring. REPOSITORY: Smithsonian (USNM).
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring and M.N. Bramlette. 1950. Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 222:1-185 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189760: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
""Nassa" moraniana" = Caesia moraniana
""Nassa" moraniana" = Caesia moraniana Martin 1914 snail | |
Nucella sp. murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella ? taphria Dall 1896 pointed nut clam | |
Cryptomya cf. californica Conrad 1837 softshell clam | |
"Spisula cf. hemphilli" = Mactromeris hemphillii, "Schizothaerus cf. nuttallii" = Tresus nuttallii
"Spisula cf. hemphilli" = Mactromeris hemphillii Dall 1894 clam
"Schizothaerus cf. nuttallii" = Tresus nuttallii Conrad 1837 clam | |
"Protothaca cf. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima
"Protothaca cf. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima Carpenter 1857 venus clam | |
"Cerastoderma cf. meekianum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum
"Cerastoderma cf. meekianum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum Gabb 1866 cockle | |
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"Siliqua cf. media" = Siliqua alta
"Siliqua cf. media" = Siliqua alta Broderip and Sowerby I 1829 clam | |
"Solen perrini" = Solena (Eosolen) perrini
"Solen perrini" = Solena (Eosolen) perrini Clark 1915 clam |