Where: California (34.5° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 118.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pico Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Top of Pico Formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: F. S. MacNeil. 1967. Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions. Geological survey professional paper [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187077: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys (Chlamys) picoensis" = Chlamys rubida
"Chlamys (Chlamys) picoensis" = Chlamys rubida Hinds 1845 scallop |