Where: Monterey County, California (36.2° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 119.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pecten coalingensis other zone, Etchegoin Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Pecten coalingensis zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Nomland in 1915; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(14):191-254 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220193: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 11.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina Conrad 1855 oyster | |
"Pecten coalingensis" = Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis, "Pecten (Hinnites) giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea, "Pecten egregius" = Chlamys egregius, "Pecten etchegoini" = Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini, "Pecten proteus" = Argopecten circularis impostor
"Pecten coalingensis" = Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten (Hinnites) giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop
"Pecten egregius" = Chlamys egregius Nomland 1917 scallop
"Pecten etchegoini" = Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini Anderson 1905 scallop as ssp. Pecten etchegoini wattsi and Pecten etchegoini nutteri
"Pecten proteus" = Argopecten circularis impostor Hanna 1924 calico scallop | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Thais lamellosa Gmelin 1791 murex snail | |
| Echinoidea | |
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Dendraster gibbsii Rémond 1863 sand dollar | |