Where: Imperial County, California (32.8° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 114.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Imperial Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1917. The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, and its significance. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98-T:355-375 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124511: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis" = Lyropecten cerrosensis, Pecten (Pecten) keepi n. sp.
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis" = Lyropecten cerrosensis Gabb 1866 scallop subspecies mendenhalli
Pecten (Pecten) keepi n. sp. Arnold 1906 scallop | |
| Anthozoa | |
Siderastrea mendenhalli n. sp.
Siderastrea mendenhalli n. sp. Vaughan 1917 stony coral | |
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