Locality D-1058 - Reef Ridge (Temblor Formation) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as D-1058

Where: Fresno County, California (35.9° N, 120.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.0° N, 110.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temblor Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• From sandstone, about 20 ft thick. From faunizone A (zone 2) (for that reason assigned an early Miocene age).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, coarse-grained, gray sandstone

• Deposited in partially enclosed bay. The fauna has a preponderance of shallow-water forms and many of the genera are characteristic of tropical or subtropical climate.
• Extremely hard, buff and gray, coarse sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by O. Adegoke. Collectetions reposited at UCMP.

Primary reference: O.S. Adegoke. 1969. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 80 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44921: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for echinodermata and mollusca. Key to abundance: c=common; f=few; r=rare.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea ashleyi" = Crassostrea ashleyi, Ostrea sp.
"Ostrea ashleyi" = Crassostrea ashleyi Hertlein 1934 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
doubtful determination
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni Arnold 1906 scallop
Subspecies; Aequipecten andersoni subandersoni
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
doubtful determination
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Tivela (Pachydesma) diabloensis Clark 1915 venus clam
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
doubtful determination
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Pseudocardium densatum, ""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria, "Mactra sectoris" = Mactromeris sectoris
Pseudocardium densatum Conrad 1856 clam
""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam
"Mactra sectoris" = Mactromeris sectoris Anderson and Martin 1914 clam
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
"Corbicula dumblei" = Polymesoda dumblei
"Corbicula dumblei" = Polymesoda dumblei Anderson 1905 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp., ""Tellina" oldroydi" = Tellina (Eurytellina) oldroydi, "Macoma copelandi" = Macoma (Rexithaerus) copelandi
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
doubtful determination
""Tellina" oldroydi" = Tellina (Eurytellina) oldroydi Wiedey 1928 tellin clam
"Macoma copelandi" = Macoma (Rexithaerus) copelandi Wiedey 1928 tellin clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella granti" = Hybolophus granti
"Crassatella granti" = Hybolophus granti Wiedey 1928 clam
doubtful determination