Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 115.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yorba Member (Puente Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• An integrated micropaleontological study of benthic foraminiferans, calcareous nannoplankton, and diatoms suggests that the fossiliferous levels of LACM locality 6202 can be referred to early late Miocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 1993; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical
Primary reference: G. Carnevale, T. W. Pietsch, G. T. Takeuchi and R. W. Huddleston. 2008. Fossil Ceratioid Anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) from the Miocene of the Los Angeles Basin, California. Journal of Paleontology 85(2):996-1008 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135888: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 12.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Leptacanthichthys gracilispinis Regan 1925 anglerfish | |
Oneirodes sp. Lutken 1871 anglerfish
Chaenophryne melanorhabdus Regan and Trewavas 1932 anglerfish | |
Linophryne indica Brauer 1902 anglerfish
Borophryne apogon Regan 1925 anglerfish |