Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Timms Point Silt Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From "Timms Point beds", which locally overly Miocene shale. AGE: Pleistocene, following Clark (1931), but edited to middle Pleistocene by enterer on the basis of established modern age control. STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: 4 ft stratigraphically higher in bed no. 2.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by W. Woodring in 1928; reposited in the CIT, LACM
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring,1928. REPOSITORY: LACMIP, including former CIT collections.
Primary reference: A. Clark. 1931. The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 7:25-42 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202645: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Neverita reclusiana" = Glossaulax reclusiana, Euspira lewisii
"Neverita reclusiana" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
Euspira lewisii Gould 1847 moon snail | |
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata, ""Exilia" rectirostris" = Exilioidea rectirostris
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata Baird 1863 true whelk
""Exilia" rectirostris" = Exilioidea rectirostris Carpenter 1864 true whelk | |
"Olivella biplicata" = Callianax biplicata
"Olivella biplicata" = Callianax biplicata Sowerby 1825 olive snail | |
Crepidula nummaria Gould 1846 slipper shell | |
Antiplanes santarosana Dall 1902 snail | |
"Turritella jewettii" = Turritella cooperi, "Bittium giganteum" = Tachyrhynchus giganteus
"Turritella jewettii" = Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell
"Bittium giganteum" = Tachyrhynchus giganteus Bartsch 1911 turret shell | |
Cidarina cidaris Adams 1864 snail | |
"Solariella peramabilis" = Minolia peramabilis
"Solariella peramabilis" = Minolia peramabilis Carpenter 1864 snail | |
"Tegula montereyi" = Chlorostoma montereyi, Calliostoma canaliculatum
"Tegula montereyi" = Chlorostoma montereyi Kiener 1850 top snail
Calliostoma canaliculatum Lightfoot 1786 top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
""Pecten" caurinus" = Patinopecten caurinus Gould 1850 scallop
Chlamys jordani Arnold 1903 scallop | |
"Volsella fornicata" = Modiolus carpenteri
"Volsella fornicata" = Modiolus carpenteri Soot-Ryen 1963 mussel | |
"Lucina californica" = Epilucina californica, "Lucina annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum
"Lucina californica" = Epilucina californica Conrad 1837 clam
"Lucina annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum Reeve 1850 clam | |
"Thyasira gouldii" = Thyasira flexuosa
"Thyasira gouldii" = Thyasira flexuosa Montagu 1803 clam | |
Solen sicarius Gould 1850 clam | |
Pandora grandis, "Pandora filosa" = Pandora (Pandorella) filosa
Pandora grandis Dall 1877 clam
"Pandora filosa" = Pandora (Pandorella) filosa Carpenter 1863 clam | |
""Protocardia" centifilosa" = Nemocardium (Keenaea) centifilosum, "Cerastoderma corbis" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii
""Protocardia" centifilosa" = Nemocardium (Keenaea) centifilosum Carpenter 1864 cockle
"Cerastoderma corbis" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii Conrad 1837 cockle | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Venus perlaminosa" = Humilaria perlaminosa, "Venerella subdiaphana" = Compsomyax subdiaphana
"Venus perlaminosa" = Humilaria perlaminosa Conrad 1855 venus clam
"Venerella subdiaphana" = Compsomyax subdiaphana Carpenter 1864 venus clam | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Cardita ventricosa" = Coanicardita ventricosa
"Cardita ventricosa" = Coanicardita ventricosa Gould 1850 clam | |
"Nuculana taphria" = Saccella taphria
"Nuculana taphria" = Saccella taphria Dall 1896 pointed nut clam | |
"Yoldia scissurata" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica
"Yoldia scissurata" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica Valenciennes 1846 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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