Also known as Reef 2397
Where: California (33.0° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 114.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Latrania Member (Imperial Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
• No calcareous algae recorded
Primary reference: A. B. Foster. 1980. Ecology and morphology of the Caribbean Mio-Pliocene reef-coral Siderastrea. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 25:439-450 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34852: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 08.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Solenastrea fairbanksi, "Dichocoenia merriami" = Favia merriami
Solenastrea fairbanksi Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"Dichocoenia merriami" = Favia merriami Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Miltha xantusi Dall 1903 clam |