Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 110.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Laguna Seca Formation, Tertiary (66.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: J. T. Smith. 1975. Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California. Paleogene Symposium & Selected Technical Papers: Conference on Future Energy Horizons of the Pacific Coast 464-483 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11123: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.07.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Tornatellaea pinguis" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis
"Tornatellaea pinguis" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis Gabb 1864 snail | |
Brachysphingus sinuatus Gabb 1869 true whelk |