Where: Del Norte County, California (41.8° N, 124.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 124.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Battery Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Battery Fm, which unconformably overlies the Dothan Fm (Jurassic). and the Point St. George Fm (Pliocene). AGE: Late Pleistocene, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy and stratigraphic position (terrace). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Lens of fossiliferous sand overlying truncated surface of grey weathering, hard Mesozoic sandstone approximately 22 feet above sea level.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Addicott in 1958
• COLLECTOR: W.O. Addicott, 1958. REPOSITORY: Unknown, either USGS or CAS.
Primary reference: W. O. Addicott. 1963. Interpretation of the invertebrate fauna from the Upper Pleistocene Battery Formation near Crescent City, California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 31(13):341-347 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96555: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Zirfaea pilsbryi Lowe 1931 clam | |
"Macoma inquinata" = Macoma (Macoma) inquinata, Macoma nasuta
"Macoma inquinata" = Macoma (Macoma) inquinata Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
Macoma nasuta Conrad 1837 tellin clam | |
"Schizothaerus capax" = Tresus capax
"Schizothaerus capax" = Tresus capax Gould 1850 clam | |
"Protothaca staminea" = Leukoma staminea, "Protothaca ruderata" = Leukoma staminea, Saxidomus giganteus
"Protothaca staminea" = Leukoma staminea Conrad 1837 venus clam
"Protothaca ruderata" = Leukoma staminea Conrad 1837 venus clam
Saxidomus giganteus Deshayes 1839 venus clam | |
Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail | |
? Margarites sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
"Acmaea persona" = Lottia persona
"Acmaea persona" = Lottia persona Eschesholtz 1833 limpet | |
Lepeta concentrica limpet | |
Thais lamellosa Gmelin 1791 murex snail | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus cf. nubilis barnacle | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram |