San Pedro Formation (unspecified localities): Middle Pleistocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia elegans
Verrill 1864
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Coronulidae
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Coronula sp.
Bruguière 1792
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Taylor et al. 2019 | ||||||
Cryptolepas sp.
Dall 1872
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Taylor et al. 2019 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Turritriton gibbosus
(Broderip 1833)
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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] |