Soledad Canyon (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP 3585

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 115.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fernando Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale

• sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1925. Additions to the Tertiary History of the Pelagic mammals on the Pacific Coast of North America V. Structure of the flipper of a Pliocene Pinniped from San Diego County, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington 348:97-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52212: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
n. sp.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus
"Pecten estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop
misspelled as "Pecten estrellanis"
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides ? sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis
"Phacoides ? sanctaecrucis" = Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis Arnold 1909 clam
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Pontolis cf. magnus1 True 1907 walrus