Also known as Deadman's Island, Dead Man's Island

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 117.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1903. Coelenterata. In R. Arnold (ed.), The paleontology and stratigraphy of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 3:86-90 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122758: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause and Jonathan Marcot

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