Also known as USGS 21649

Where: Ventura County, California (33.2° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 107.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unnamed Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• 3,500 feet of alternating marine sandstone and siltstone beds that contain minor amounts of interbedded conglomerate and pebbly mudstone. Is divided into 35 mapping units in Vedder and Norris (1963) but thestratigraphic location of the fossil collections are not indicated. Small andesite dikes of Miocene age intrude the Eocene strata. Dune sand and fossiliferous marine terrace deposits of Quaternary age overlie most of the Eocene strata. Bulk of the specific identifications suggest a middle to late Eocene age based on forms conspecific with those found in the Domengine Formation, the upper part of the Llajas Formation, the Rose Canyon shale member of the La Jolla Formation, and the Tejon Formation, all of whihc are considered to be in the upper half of the Eocene in Calfornia

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, conglomeratic mudstone and medium-grained, gray, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Vedder et al. (1955, 1956). Earlier collections by Bowers (1890), Harbor and Reed (1933).

Primary reference: J. G. Vedder and R. M. Norris. 1963. Geology of San Nicolas Island, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 369:1-65 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37928: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.03.2004

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