San Pedro Formation (unspecified localities): Middle Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia elegans Verrill 1864
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Coronulidae
Coronula sp. Bruguière 1792
Taylor et al. 2019
Cryptolepas sp. Dall 1872
Taylor et al. 2019
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip 1833)
Beu 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 118.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 118.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:San Pedro Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORIES: Unknown, but presumably including San Diego Museum Nat. Hist.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:122846
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Uhen, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy, M. Uhen
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-01-06 02:16:07 Last modified:2021-11-13 20:15:01
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-01-06 02:16:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31202. S. D. Cairns. 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557:1-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
78337 A. Hendy. 2021. A review of the Quaternary Mollusca of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
71065 L. D. Taylor, A. O'Dea, T. J. Bralower and S. Finnegan. 2019. Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]