UCLA loc. 3462, west side of Krim Drive, Cheviot Hills (Pleistocene of the United States)

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
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis
"Cyclocardia cf. occidentalis" = Coanicardita occidentalis Conrad 1855 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium
"Trachycardium quadragenarium" = Dallocardia quadragenarium Conrad 1837 cockle
misspelled as "Trachycardium quadregenarium"
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Compsomyax subdiaphana Carpenter 1864 venus clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sicarius Gould 1850 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata Baird 1863 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis
""Nassa" perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis Hinds 1844 snail