Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Middle 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 in 1927
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: H.R. Gale, 1927. 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 96909: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina
"Ostrea vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina Conrad 1855 oyster | |
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi, "Pecten (Aequipecten) deserti" = Argopecten deserti, "Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus, "Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten (Aequipecten) deserti" = Argopecten deserti Conrad 1855 calico scallop SUBSPECIES: Pecten ( Aequipecten) deserti invalidus
"Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck 1819 calico scallop Multiple subspecies
"Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop | |
"Cardita ventricosa" = Coanicardita ventricosa
"Cardita ventricosa" = Coanicardita ventricosa Gould 1850 clam | |
"Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi, "Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata
"Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi Dall 1903 clam
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam | |
"Tellina idae" = Idatellina idae
"Tellina idae" = Idatellina idae Dall 1891 tellin clam | |
Amiantis callosa Conrad 1837 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina Forbes 1850 top snail | |
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell |