CAS loc. 1132 - Pacific Beach (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: San Diego County, California (32.8° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: San Diego Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg; reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1929. A new Pecten from the San Diego Pliocene. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 18(5):215 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206342: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 12.11.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharias virgatulus n. sp.
Carcharias virgatulus n. sp. Jordan and Hanibal 1923 sand shark only said to be "from Pleistocene deposits, Sand Diego formation at Pacific Beach" so maybe different locality?
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| Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) ericellus n. sp." = Argopecten ericellus
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) ericellus n. sp." = Argopecten ericellus Hertlein 1929 calico scallop | |