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 | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) lawsoni n. sp." = Chlamys hastata
"Pecten (Chlamys) lawsoni n. sp." = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop | |
Anthozoa | |
Astrangia grandis n. sp.
Astrangia grandis n. sp. Nomland 1917 stony coral |