Where: Lewis County, California (41.0° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 123.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• late Pliocene of Pleistocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone and unlithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Focus on corals
Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36867: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Dendrophyllia ? oldroydi Faustino 1931 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Arca sisquocensis" = Arca (Arca) sisquocensis
"Arca sisquocensis" = Arca (Arca) sisquocensis Reinhart 1937 ark | |
Echinoidea | |
"Anorthoscutum sp." = Scutellaster
"Anorthoscutum sp." = Scutellaster Cragin 1895 sand dollar |