Locality D-1061 - Reef Ridge (Temblor Formation) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as D-1061

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

• Paleocoordinates: 38.9° N, 113.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temblor Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• From two sandstone ledges. Total intreval not more than 10 ft thick. From faunizone B (zone 3) (for that reason assigned an middle Miocene age).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; coarse-grained, gray, silty 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.
• Coarse-grained, gray, silty 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 44934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for echinodermata and mollusca. Key to abundance: c=common; f=few; r=rare.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
doubtful determination
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni
"Aequipecten andersoni" = Pacipecten andersoni Arnold 1906 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp., "Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
doubtful determination
"Anadara (Anadara) osmonti" = Anadara osmonti Dall 1909 ark
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
doubtful determination
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panope abrupta" = Panopea abrupta
"Panope abrupta" = Panopea abrupta Conrad 1849 clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta orbella Gould 1851 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam
Clementia (Egesta) conradiana Anderson 1905 venus clam
Saxidomus vaquerosensis Arnold 1909 venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinidia) merriami Clark 1915 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Pseudocardium densatum, ""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria
Pseudocardium densatum Conrad 1856 clam
Subspecies: Pseudocardium densatum minor
""Spisula" (Mactromeris) albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam