Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 111.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Agua Sandstone Member (Temblor Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Agua Sst Mbr which regionally interfingers the Santos Shale of the lower (type) Temblor Fm (Late Oligocene-Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: Unknown thickness of collection or member. AGE: Early Miocene; Vaqueros molluscan stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal conglomerate.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP, USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: H.S. Sonneman and W. O. Addicott (1968). REPOSITORY: USGS, USNM and UCMP amongst other collections.
Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1973. Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 791:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72410: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata
"Heteromacoma rostellata" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata Clark 1918 tellin clam | |
? Katherinella sp. Tegland 1929 venus clam | |
Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam | |
Vertipecten ? perrini Arnold 1906 scallop | |
? Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster |