Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Pliocene, according to text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gale
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: H.R. Gale. REPOSITORY: San Diego Museum of Natural History.
Primary reference: U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale. 1931. Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1:1-1036 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96903: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Arca (Navicula) terminumbonis n. sp." = Angulararca terminumbonis
"Arca (Navicula) terminumbonis n. sp." = Angulararca terminumbonis Grant, IV and Gale 1931 clam | |
"Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi, "Lucina (Myrtea) nuttallii" = Lucinisca nuttalli
"Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi Dall 1903 clam
"Lucina (Myrtea) nuttallii" = Lucinisca nuttalli Conrad 1837 clam | |
Amiantis callosa Conrad 1837 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina Forbes 1850 top snail | |
"Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail SUBSPECIES: Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus pabloensis
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Surculites (Megasurcula) remondii, "Moniliopsis incisa" = Ophiodermella incisa
Surculites (Megasurcula) remondii Gabb 1866 turrid
"Moniliopsis incisa" = Ophiodermella incisa Carpenter 1863 turrid SUBSPECIES: Moniliopsis incisa quinquecincta
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"Conus californicus" = Californiconus californicus
"Conus californicus" = Californiconus californicus Reeve 1844 cone shell | |
Clavus (Clathrodrillia) coalingensis Arnold 1909 snail | |
Spirotropis (Antiplanes) perversa Gabb 1865 snail SUBSPECIES: Spirotropis (Antiplanes) perversa femandoensis
Spirotropis (Antiplanes) bulimoides Dall 1919 snail |