Also known as Locality 68 of Hoots 1931
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.0° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 118.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• unnamed sands
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Peter Rodda in October, 1955; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: P. U. Rodda. 1957. Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(11):2475-2492 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 28157: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 26.01.2003, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica Haldeman 1840 horn snail | |
Alabina tenuisculpta Carpenter 1864 cerith snail | |
"Nassarius tegula" = Phrontis tegula
"Nassarius tegula" = Phrontis tegula Reeve 1853 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Macoma nasuta, "Tellina meropsis" = Tampaella meropsis
Macoma nasuta Conrad 1837 tellin clam
"Tellina meropsis" = Tampaella meropsis Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
"Tagelus californianus" = Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus
"Tagelus californianus" = Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus Conrad 1837 clam | |
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Cryptomya californica Conrad 1837 softshell clam | |
Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864 oyster | |
Leptopecten latiauratus Conrad 1837 scallop |