UCMP A3448 (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: California (35.9° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pecten coalingensis other zone, San Joaquin Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Upper Pliocene, San Joaquin clay.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• "San Joaquin clay near Coalinga"; "Kettleman Hills; Block of sandstone containing cupcorals" (taken from UCMP locality database)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1941. A new coral from the Pliocene of California. Journal of Paleontology 15(3):278-279 [P. Holroyd/E. Orzechowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194666: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Emily Orzechowski on 25.06.2018, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Rhizopsammia arnoldi n. sp.
Rhizopsammia arnoldi n. sp. Durham 1941 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia coalingensis
Astrangia coalingensis Vaughan 1909 stony coral