Point Loma, "coal mine," ocean shore of Point (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: California (32.7° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.9° W)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Right movable finger and right immovable finger of much larger specimen (C. productus)

Collected by Frank Stephens in 5, 1918; reposited in the USNM

• C. productus, Cat. No. 8258 USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139843: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.02.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer productus Randall 1839 crab
Polyplacophora
 Neoloricata - Ischnochitonidae
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) acrior" = Stenoplax magdalenensis, "Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) conspicuus" = Stenoplax conspicua
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) acrior" = Stenoplax magdalenensis Hinds 1845 magdalena chiton
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) conspicuus" = Stenoplax conspicua Carpenter 1879 conspicuous chiton
 Neoloricata - Acanthochitonidae
Cryptochiton stelleri Middendorf 1847 chiton
 Neoloricata - Mopaliidae
Mopalia muscosa Gould 1846 chiton