Waldorf Asphalt Mine, Guadalupe (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 119.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fernando Group, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Middle Fernando

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. New fossil corals from the Pacific coast. University of California Publications in Geology 10(13):185-190 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122278: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) lawsoni n. sp." = Chlamys hastata
"Pecten (Chlamys) lawsoni n. sp." = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia grandis n. sp. Nomland 1917 stony coral