Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 115.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lower Member (Modelo Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core
Primary reference: L. R. David. 1943. Miocene Fishes of Southern California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 43:1-187 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167462: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.03.2015, edited by Mark Uhen and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Actinopteri | |
Argyropelecus bullockii David 1943 | |
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Cyclothone cf. solitudinis Jordan 1907 | |
? Eclipes sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919 perch-like fish | |
? Lompoquia sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919 | |
Scomber sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Bathylagus (Quaesita) angelensis" = Bathylagus angelensis
"Bathylagus (Quaesita) angelensis" = Bathylagus angelensis Jordan and Gilbert 1919 | |
Etringus scintillans Jordan 1907 herring |