Soledad Pass: Early/Lower Miocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Etringus scintillans Jordan 1907
Ganolytes cameo Jordan 1919
Actinopteri - Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
Rogenio solitudinis Jordan 1907
recombined as Cyclothone solitudinis
Actinopteri - Beloniformes - Forficidae
Rhomurus fulcratus Jordan 1919
Actinopteri - Blenniiformes - Gobiesocidae
Bulbiceps raninus Jordan 1919
Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Auxides sanctaemonicae Jordan 1919
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 118.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 111.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: older than that of the Monterey deposits and of the lowest Miocene or possibly of the Oligocene
age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,white sandstone
Lithology description: rather fine, white shaly sandstone,
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:186008
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-06-06 11:13:11 Last modified:2017-06-06 11:22:10
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-06 11:13:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62412. D. S. Jordan. 1919. Fossil fishes from the Soledad deposits of Southern California. Leland Stanford Junior University, University Series 3-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]