Also known as USGS 15011

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.8° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 118.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tinaquaic Sandstone Member (Sisquoc Formation), Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

• The Sisquoc Formation contains two principal lithologic facies: a fine-grained basin facies ( Todos Santos Claystone mbr) consisting chiefly of diatomaceous mudstone and a marginal sandstone facies ( Tinaquaic sandstone mbr). The basin facies of the Sisquoc Formation overlies the Monterey Formation without discordance. A maximum thickness of 5000 ft is estimated from the subsurface, although the maximum exposed thickness of the formation is 3000 ft. AGE: Revised to Messian-Zanclean consistent with EPICC stratigraphic revision.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Presumably reposited in UGGS collections...not specified.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39327: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2004

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