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 96912: 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 |