I'm looking for someone to identify California Miocene barnacles from the northern California Channel Islands. They are from rocks previously identified as from the early Miocene Vaqueros Formation but are likely middle Miocene in age and the formation that is unnamed and isn't equivalent to the type Vaqueros Formation. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
You may find it useful to consult the fauna of Vaqueros formation in the following work:
Loel, W., Corey, W. Henry. (1932). The Vaqueros formation, Lower Miocene of California: I. Paleontology. Berkeley: University of California press.
Article Palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Miocene barnacle facies:...
I think it will be a good article with good bibliography but of course it can't answer to hole your questions. Maybe you will find some answers in bibliography. Good Luck in your work.
Victor A. Zullo did several publications on west coast Neogene barnacles. See
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victor_A._Zullo for a good working list of his publications with links where possible. Zullo, 1992, on concavines may prove helpful. In studies of balanid barnacles, opercular plates are essential to full identification.
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