Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Pliocene, according to text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gale
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: H.R. Gale. REPOSITORY: San Diego Museum of Natural History.
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 96902: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell | |
"Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail SUBSPECIES: Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus callosus
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Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Acila) castrensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis
"Nucula (Acila) castrensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis Hinds 1843 divaricate nutclam | |
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop | |
"Venus (Chione) securis" = Securella securis
"Venus (Chione) securis" = Securella securis Shumard 1858 venus clam | |
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam |