Also known as LACM locality 44213
Where: San Diego County, California (32.5° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 116.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: San Diego Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein and U. S. Grant. 1960. The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California. Part 2a, Paleontology. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 2:73-134 [L. Villier/L. Villier/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122752: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2012, edited by Austin Hendy, Matthew Clapham, Jonathan Marcot and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca | |
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Balanus (Hesperibalanus) proinus5, Balanus (Balanus) kanakoffi n. sp.5, "Balanus (Balanus) nubilus" = Balanus nubilus5, "Balanus (Balanus) gregarius" = Tamiosoma gregaria5, Cetolepas hertleini n. gen. n. sp.5, "Balanus (Balanus) cf. pacificus" = Paraconcavus pacificus5
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Malacostraca | |
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium4
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia elegans Verrill 1864 stony coral
Dendrophyllia cf. oldroydi Faustino 1931 stony coral | |
Astrangia cf. insignifica Nomland 1916 stony coral | |
Paracyathus stearnsii Verrill 1869 stony coral |