Los Angeles Brick-yard (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 115.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Monterey Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1919. Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) Formations. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 13-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186019: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Pomatomidae
Lophar miocaenus n. gen. n. sp.
Lophar miocaenus n. gen. n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919