Also known as Woodring Loc. 178c; FP4
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 119.7° 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 189769: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Diodora aspera Rathke 1833 snail | |
Trochita radians Lamarck 1816 slipper shell
Crepidula nummaria Gould 1846 slipper shell
Bostrycapulus decorus Collin 2019 slipper shell | |
"Barbarofusus cf. arnoldi" = Harfordia arnoldi
"Barbarofusus cf. arnoldi" = Harfordia arnoldi Cossmann 1903 snail | |
"Calicantharus portolaensis" = Lirabuccinum portolaensis
"Calicantharus portolaensis" = Lirabuccinum portolaensis Arnold 1908 snail | |
""Nassa" cooperi" = Hima cooperi, ""Nassa" mendica" = Hima mendica
""Nassa" mendica" = Hima mendica Gould 1849 snail | |
Amphissa cf. versicolor Dall 1871 snail | |
""Cancellaria" cf. tritonidea" = Euclia tritonidea, "Cancellaria" arnoldi
""Cancellaria" cf. tritonidea" = Euclia tritonidea Gabb 1866 snail
"Cancellaria" arnoldi Dall 1909 snail | |
Megasurcula cf. carpenteriana Gabb 1866 turrid | |
""Gyrineum" mediocre" = Argobuccinum mediocre
""Gyrineum" mediocre" = Argobuccinum mediocre Dall 1909 triton shell SUBSPECIES: "Gyrineum" mediocre lewisiii
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"Neverita reclusiana" = Glossaulax reclusiana, "Lunatia cf. lewisii" = Euspira lewisii
"Neverita reclusiana" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
"Lunatia cf. lewisii" = Euspira lewisii Gould 1847 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cyclocardia californica" = Coanicardita californica
"Cyclocardia californica" = Coanicardita californica Dall 1903 clam | |
Compsomyax cf. subdiaphana, "Transennella cf. tantilla" = Nutricola tantilla
Compsomyax cf. subdiaphana Carpenter 1864 venus clam
"Transennella cf. tantilla" = Nutricola tantilla Gould 1853 venus clam | |
Chama arcana Bernard 1976 jewel box | |
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831 clam | |
Cumingia californica, "Semele cf. rubropicta" = Semele (Semele) rubropicta
Cumingia californica Conrad 1837 clam
"Semele cf. rubropicta" = Semele (Semele) rubropicta Dall 1871 clam | |
Anadara trilineata Conrad 1856 ark | |
"Pecten hemphilli" = Euvola bella Conrad 1856 scallop
"Chlamys hastatus" = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop
Lyropecten cerrosensis Gabb 1866 scallop |