Also known as Monterey Fm - Scotts Valley, Felton, Santa Cruz
Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 117.7° 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 sandy 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 37539: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara (? Scapharca) obispoana" = Scapharca (Scapharca) obispoana
"Anadara (? Scapharca) obispoana" = Scapharca (Scapharca) obispoana Conrad 1857 clam | |
Delectopecten peckhami Gabb 1869 scallop | |
"Cyclocardia montereyana" = Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) montereyana
"Cyclocardia montereyana" = Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) montereyana Arnold 1908 clam | |
Yoldia impressa Conrad 1849 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail |