Also known as LACMIP loc. 23462
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.0° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 117.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anchor Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• "Anchor silt"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Peter Rodda in November, 1955; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: P. U. Rodda. 1957. Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(11):2475-2492 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 38042: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.04.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis Conrad 1855 clam | |
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium Conrad 1837 cockle misspelled as "Trachycardium quadregenarium"
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Compsomyax subdiaphana Carpenter 1864 venus clam | |
Solen sicarius Gould 1850 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata Baird 1863 true whelk | |
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis Hinds 1844 snail |