Where: San Diego County, California (32.7° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 115.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Only information is "Pliocene" but some historical "Pliocene" material could be Pleistocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1929. New species of fossil decapod crustaceans from California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 19(21):469-472 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135776: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Stimpson 1857 sea urchin | |
Malacostraca | |
Persephona invalida n. sp.
Persephona invalida n. sp. Rathbun 1929 crab |