LACMIP 438, Woodcrest Drive, off Sepulveda Boulevard (Miocene of the United States)

Where: California (34.1° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Altamira Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• Los Angeles basin associated with San Andreas fault system

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Eric Sorrenson in 1961; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1965. Fossil arthropods of California 26. Three new fossil insect sites in California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 64:157-162 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152210: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
"Rhyssematus miocenae n. sp." = Rhyssomatus miocenae
"Rhyssematus miocenae n. sp." = Rhyssomatus miocenae Pierce 1965 snout beetle
LACMIP S9112