Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 112.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Vaqueros Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. S. M cKenna and L. Wm. Wiedey; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. W. Wiedey. 1928. Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(10):95-182 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 220076: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 03.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus perrini n. sp., Spondylus inezana n. sp.
Spondylus perrini n. sp. Wiedey 1928 scallop
Spondylus inezana n. sp. Wiedey 1928 scallop |