Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 111.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: CN3 nannofossil zone, Saddleback Valley Limestone Member (Monterey Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl and conglomerate
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: C. J. Stadum and K. L. Finger. 2016. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 524:31-49 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 196126: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Lithophyllum cf. profundum Johnson 1954 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Saxidomus sp. Conrad 1837 venus clam | |
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847 |