Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 114.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lompico Sandstone Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Near base of Lompico Sandstone. Up to 240 m thick; intertongues with Monterey Formation; angular unconformity with Butano Sandstone below; noncomformably overlies crystaline basement in places, also Locatelli Formation and Zayante Sandstone; conformably overlain by Monterey Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; medium-grained, gray, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Also collections at USGS, Menlo Park
Primary reference: J. C. Clark. 1981. Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1168:1-51 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37523: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |