PBDB Collection

3rd Street tunnel: Early/Lower Pliocene, California
collected 1913

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Elopidae

	Ectasis proriger n. gen., n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919	Jordan and Gilbert 1919
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae

	Mancalla californiensis n. sp. Lucas 1901		1 specimen
	probably "bird bones" of Arnold 1907
Gastropoda

	Fissuridea murina Arnold 1903	Arnold 1907
	= Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Woodring 1938
	rejected by Woodring 1938 as part of this collection
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Neverita recluziana (Deshayes 1839)	Arnold 1907
	= Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834	Woodring 1938
	"undetermined naticid"
Gastropoda - Ranellidae

	Priene oregonensis (Redfield 1846)	Arnold 1907
	as Priene oregonensis var. angelensis new variety
	= Fusitriton aff. oregonensis Redfield 1846	Woodring 1938
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

	Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758	Arnold 1907
	= ? Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758	Woodring 1938

	Pleurotoma sp. Lamarck 1800	Arnold 1907
	= ? Plicifusus sp. Dall 1902	Woodring 1938
	original and current combination Tritonofusus (Plicifusus)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

	Nassa hamlini n. sp. Arnold 1907	Arnold 1907
	recombined as Nassarius (Catilon) hamlini
Gastropoda - Turbinidae

	Astraea cf. gradata Grant and Gale 1931	Woodring 1938
Bivalvia

	Macoma sp. Leach 1819	Arnold 1907
	= Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Woodring 1938
	"Undetermined"

	Pecten (Chlamys) latiauritus (Conrad 1837)	Arnold 1906
	= Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Woodring 1938
	rejected by Woodring 1938 as part of this collection

	Pecten (Chlamys) opuntia Dall 1898	Arnold 1906
	= Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Woodring 1938
	rejected by Woodring 1938 as part of this collection

	Pecten (Pecten) stearnsii (Dall 1878)	Arnold 1906
	= Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Woodring 1938
	rejected by Woodring 1938 as part of this collection
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae

	Carditoidea indet. (Fleming 1820)	Arnold 1907
	"Carditoid sp."
	= Phreagena lasia n. gen., n. sp. Woodring 1938	Woodring 1938
	synonym of Archivesica gibbera
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

	Trachycardium cf. quadragenarium (Conrad 1837)	Woodring 1938
	recombined as Dallocardia quadragenarium
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinoma aff. aequizonata (Stearns 1890)	Woodring 1938
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

	Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816	Arnold 1907
	= Crassatellites sp. Krueger 1823	Soper and Grant, IV 1932
	synonym of Crassatella
	"probably Crassatellites species"
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Pecten (Pseudamusium) pedroanus (Trask 1856)	Arnold 1906
	"abundant"
	= Hyalopecten (Delectopecten) aff. randolphi Dall 1897	Woodring 1938

	Pecten (Lyropecten) ashleyi Arnold 1906	Arnold 1906
	= Pecten (Lyropecten) cerrosensis Gabb 1866	Soper and Grant, IV 1932
	recombined as Lyropecten cerrosensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

	Lima hamlini n. sp. Dall 1900	Dall 1900
	recombined as Acesta (Acesta) hamlini
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

	Ostrea veatchii Gabb 1866	Arnold 1907
	= Ostrea vespertina Conrad 1855	Soper and Grant, IV 1932
	recombined as Dendostrea vespertina
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

	Arca multicostata Sowerby 1833	Arnold 1907
	= Anadara camuloensis Osmont 1904	Woodring 1938
	recombined as Larkinia camuloensis
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Ocypodidae

	Uca hamlini Rathbun 1926	Rathbun 1926
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae

	Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834	Arnold 1907
	"coral"
	= ? Stephanotrochus hamlini	Soper and Grant, IV 1932
	= ? Stephanocyathus sp. Seguenza 1864	Woodring 1938
	"presumably represented in type material of "Radiolites" hamlini Stearns"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	California	County:	Los Angeles
Coordinates:	34.1° North, 118.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	33.8° North, 117.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Pliocene
Stage:	Zanclean	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:	5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Fernando
Stratigraphy comments: age from Smith, 2011; originally late Miocene or early Pliocene, probably the former

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	gray,blue argillaceous "shale"
Lithology description: bluish-gray clayey shale
Environment:	coastal indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	LACM,USNM
Collection dates:	1913
Collection method comments: ... Homer Hamlin, city engineer of Los Angeles, California, to whom we are indebted for preserving the valuable paleontological material taken out of the Third Street tunnel, Los Angeles.

Metadata

Also known as:	Third Street Tunnel; USGS loc. 3426
Database number:	120822
Authorizer:	M. Uhen, J. Marcot, C. Schweitzer	Enterer:	M. Uhen, J. Marcot, S. Yost
Modifier:	J. Marcot	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2011-11-22 07:49:38	Last modified:	2021-05-17 18:54:35
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-11-22 07:49:38
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

38586.

F. A. Lucas. 1901. A flightless auk, Mancalla californiensis, from the Miocene of California. Proceedings of the US National Museum 24(1245):133-134 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

71229		R. Arnold. 1906. Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. USGS Professional Paper 47:1-264 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
67636		R. Arnold. 1907. New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil-bearing Tertiary formations of southern California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 32(1545):525-546 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
70880		W. H. Dall. 1900. A new species of Lima. The Nautilus 14:15-16 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
62416		D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1919. Fossil fishes of the Pliocene formations of Southern California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 61-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
44425	decapod,fossil record	M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]
38584		N. A. Smith. 2011. Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae). ZooKeys 91:1-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
68410		E. K. Soper and U. S. Grant, IV. 1932. Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 43(4):1041-1068 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
70884		W. P. Woodring. 1938. Lower Pliocene mollusks and echinoids from the Los Angeles Basin, California, and their inferred environment. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 190:1-67 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]