Union Oil 76 Refinery Number 2: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Myliobatoidea indet.
Langenwalter 1975
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Coronulidae
Cetopirus polysyrinx n. sp. Collareta et al. 2022
Collareta et al. 2022 1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca cf. vitulina Linnaeus 1758
Koretsky and Barnes 2008
Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Barnes 2008
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839
DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
Langenwalter 1975
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Langenwalter 1975
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838
Langenwalter 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 118.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 118.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palos Verdes Sand
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "18O substage 5e"
Metadata
Also known as:LACM 3262, LACMIP 1210, UCMP V-7004, UCMP V-70027
DUPLICATE REF 2018 or 2019
Database number:20645
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-07-30 11:37:45
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2018. G. T. Jefferson. 1991. A catalogue of late Quaternary Vertebrates from California: Part Two, Mammals. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 7:1-129 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

37376 L. G. Barnes. 2008. Otarioidea. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, M. D. Uhen (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2:523-541 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
82780 A. Collareta, M. Bosselaers, P. A. Holroyd and A. Dineen. 2022. A forgotten cirripedological gem: a new species of whale barnacle of the genus Cetopirus from the Pleistocene of the United States West Coast. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/M. Uhen]
37377 I. A. Koretsky and L. G. Barnes. 2008. Phocidae. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, M. D. Uhen (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2:542-556 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28773 P. E. Langenwalter. 1975. Marine studies of San Pedro Bay, California. Chordates: The fossil vertebrates of the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbors region 9:36-54 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]