Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 117.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monterey Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Succession of organic mudstone beds of lare Relizian and Luisian (middle Miocene) age that are conformable above the Lompico Sandstone. Up to 600 m thick.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, dolomitic, gray, cherty/siliceous mudstone and siltstone
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 37533: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Leptopecten andersoni scallop | |
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam |