UCLA loc. 3461, west side of Anchor Avenue, Cheviot Hills (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 23461

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.0° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 117.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anchor Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• "Anchor silt"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Siliciclastic marine setting.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Peter Rodda in October, 1955; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: salvage

Primary reference: P. U. Rodda. 1957. Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(11):2475-2492 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83787: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.09.2008, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis Hinds 1844 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
"Mitrella gouldii" = Mitrella gausapata
"Mitrella gouldii" = Mitrella gausapata Gould 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Cryptonatica cf. aleutica" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Cryptonatica cf. aleutica" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis Conrad 1855 clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sicarius Gould 1850 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium Conrad 1837 cockle
misspelled as "Trachycardium quadregenarium"
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Psephidia lordi" = Nutricola lordi Baird 1863 lord dwarf-venus
Compsomyax subdiaphana Carpenter 1864 venus clam