UCLA loc. 3439, west side of Overland Avenue (Pleistocene of the United States)

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
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica Haldeman 1840 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Alabina tenuisculpta Carpenter 1864 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Nassarius tegula" = Phrontis tegula
"Nassarius tegula" = Phrontis tegula Reeve 1853 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma nasuta, "Tellina meropsis" = Tampaella meropsis
Macoma nasuta Conrad 1837 tellin clam
"Tellina meropsis" = Tampaella meropsis Dall 1900 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
"Tagelus californianus" = Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus
"Tagelus californianus" = Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus Conrad 1837 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione undatella Sowerby I 1835 venus clam
as ssp. "Chione undatella simillima"
 Pholadida - Myidae
Cryptomya californica Conrad 1837 softshell clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Leptopecten latiauratus Conrad 1837 scallop