SDSNH Loc. 216, Fernando Pass (Pliocene of the United States)

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: Middle Pliocene, according to text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coarse sandstone. 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 96911: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature (revised through other sources), but with species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Neverita recluziana" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Neverita recluziana" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
SUBSPECIES: Neverita recluziana andersoni
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Thais (Nucella) elsmerensis, "Purpura (Jaton) eldridgei" = Maxwellia eldridgei
Thais (Nucella) elsmerensis Grant, IV and Gale 1931 murex snail
"Purpura (Jaton) eldridgei" = Maxwellia eldridgei Arnold 1907 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus californicus" = Californiconus californicus
"Conus californicus" = Californiconus californicus Reeve 1844 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Kelletia (Kelletia) kelletii" = Siphonalia (Kelletia) kelletii
"Kelletia (Kelletia) kelletii" = Siphonalia (Kelletia) kelletii Forbes 1852 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria clavatula" = Narona clavatula, "Cancellaria obesa" = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) obesa, "Cancellaria tritonidea" = Euclia tritonidea
"Cancellaria clavatula" = Narona clavatula Sowerby 1832 snail
"Cancellaria obesa" = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) obesa Sowerby 1832 snail
SUBSPECIES: Cancellaria obesa planospira
"Cancellaria tritonidea" = Euclia tritonidea Gabb 1866 snail
SUBSPECIES: Cancellaria tritonidea femandoensis
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina Forbes 1850 top snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata, "Lucina (Myrtea) nuttallii" = Lucinisca nuttalli
"Lucina (Myrtea) acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam
"Lucina (Myrtea) nuttallii" = Lucinisca nuttalli Conrad 1837 clam