Mount Diablo, 3 miles south (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Contra Costa County, California (37.8° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 119.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Arnold. 1906. Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. USGS Professional Paper 47:1-264 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 208131: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni n. sp." = Pacipecten andersoni
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) andersoni n. sp." = Pacipecten andersoni Arnold 1906 scallop