USGS loc. M4467, Temblor Range: Late/Upper Oligocene, California
collected by W. O. Addicott 1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis (Arnold 1909)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pecten) sanctaecruzensis Arnold 1906
recombined as Oppenheimopecten sanctaecruzensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Kern
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 119.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 111.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Temblor Member:Wygal Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Wygal Sandstone Member of the Temblor Formation, basal 3 ft.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified based on figured specimens.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Warm, shallow-water depositional environment - less than 20 fathoms and possibly much shallower.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:W. O. Addicott Collection dates:1971
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with subgeneric and species level assignments, though slightly antiquated nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:219739
Authorizer:J. Marcot Enterer:J. Marcot
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2021-04-20 12:31:55 Last modified:2021-04-20 12:31:55
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-20 12:31:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24557. 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]