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Quailwater Canyon

US / CA
35.49299, -120.41670View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Quailwater Canyon is a fossil collection site in California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Santa Margarita Formation, dated to the Late Miocene (11.63–5.333 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Astrodapsis antiselli, Astrodapsis whitneyi, Lyropecten crassicardo.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Santa Margarita
Geologic interval
Late Miocene
Age
11.63–5.333 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
3
Locality notes

exact coordinates are a bit of a guess

Fossils found here

Astrodapsis antiselli
Echinoidea · Echinarachniidae
Astrodapsis whitneyi
Echinoidea · Echinarachniidae
Lyropecten crassicardo
Bivalvia · Pectinidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 203546 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 35.49299, -120.41670

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