SDSNH Loc. 208, Elsmere Canyon (Pliocene of the United States)

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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature (revised through other sources), but with species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell