UCMP D2506 Arroyo Doblegado (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Kings County, California (36.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 118.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Etchegoin Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• middle Pliocene Patinopecten Zone

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• fine- to medium-grained quartzose sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. D. Nations. 1968. A new species of cancroid crab from the Pliocene of California. Journal of Paleontology 42(1):33-36 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199732: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 09.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Dendraster gibbsii RĂ©mond 1863 sand dollar
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Glycimeris grewingki" = Glycymeris
"Glycimeris grewingki" = Glycymeris clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Pseudocardium densatum Conrad 1856 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Patinopecten lohri Hertlein 1927 scallop
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
"Cancer davidi n. sp." = Metacarcinus davidi
"Cancer davidi n. sp." = Metacarcinus davidi Nations 1968 crab