Also known as UCLA 631
Where: Imperial County, California (32.9° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 114.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Imperial Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1917. The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, and its significance. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98-T:355-375 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Maeandra bowersi n. sp." = Diploria bowersi
"Maeandra bowersi n. sp." = Diploria bowersi Vaughan 1917 stony coral | |
"Siderastrea californica n. sp." = Siderastrea mendenhalli
"Siderastrea californica n. sp." = Siderastrea mendenhalli Vaughan 1917 stony coral | |
| Echinoidea | |
Echinoneus burgeri n. sp.
Echinoneus burgeri n. sp. Grant and Hertlein 1938 sea urchin | |