Location #64-10P - Garanon Canyon (Vaqueros Fm) (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaqueros Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• From Vaqueros Formation = middle Zemorian. Zemorian=middle to late Oligocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Shallow marine coastal siliciclastic environment.
• Buff, coarse-grained, massively bedded sandstone, less lithified than other strata.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Avila and Weaver (1964). Not sure of any repositories.

Primary reference: D. E. Weaver. 1969. Geology of the Northern Channel Islands. American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Pacific Section [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52413: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Nomenclature appears reasonable. Unsure of identifier.
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina Conrad 1855 oyster
Subspecies: Ostrea vespertina loeli