SDSNH Loc. 212, Fernando Pass (Pliocene of the United States)

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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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 96907: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature (revised through other sources), but with species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi, "Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus, "Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus
"Pecten (Patinopecten) healeyi" = Patinopecten healeyi Arnold 1906 scallop
"Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus" = Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck 1819 calico scallop
SUBSPECIES: Pecten (Aequipecten) purpuratus callidus
"Pecten (Lyropecten) estrellanus" = Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856 scallop