CAS 1413, San Diego (Pliocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Strongylocentrotidae
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Stimpson 1857 sea urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Persephona invalida n. sp. Rathbun 1929 crab