Mount Diablo region (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.3° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 119.1° W)

When: San Pablo Group, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Uppermost San Pablo greoup equivalent to lower Etchegoin (Jacalitos)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203545: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
"Astrodapsis major" = Astrodapsis arnoldi
"Astrodapsis major" = Astrodapsis arnoldi Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar