Crescent City (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Del Norte County, California (41.8° N, 124.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 122.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Pliocene, according to text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but possibly Arnold and Dall. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale. 1931. Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1:1-1036 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96886: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.07.2010, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature (revised through other sources), but with species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Pallium) swiftii" = Chlamys (Swiftopecten) swifti, "Pecten (Chlamys) parmeleei" = Swiftopecten parmeleei, "Pecten (Pecten) bartschi n. sp." = Chlamys bartschi
"Pecten (Pallium) swiftii" = Chlamys (Swiftopecten) swifti Bernardi 1858 scallop
"Pecten (Chlamys) parmeleei" = Swiftopecten parmeleei Dall 1898 scallop
"Pecten (Pecten) bartschi n. sp." = Chlamys bartschi Arnold 1906 scallop