Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Middle 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 in 1927
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: H.R. Gale, 1927. 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 96906: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus, "Pecten (Aequipecten) deserti" = Argopecten deserti, "Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus, "Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi
"Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop
"Pecten (Aequipecten) deserti" = Argopecten deserti Conrad 1855 calico scallop SUBSPECIES: Pecten (Aequipecten) deserti impostor
"Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck 1819 calico scallop Multiple subspecies
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop | |
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata, "Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam
"Lucina (Miltha) xantusi" = Miltha xantusi Dall 1903 clam | |