| Oysters from the upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene Vaqueros Formation of Santa Barbara County, California. Note the inches and centimeter scale bar at lower left. These specimens came from the deep back country of Santa Barbara County, well inland from the coastal environs of the community of Santa Barbara. Called scientifically, Ostrea wiedeyi. Photograph courtesy the California Academy of Sciences under terms of the following license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). |