Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 85.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Tuna Canyon Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Originally described as "Chico," but now mapped as Tuna Canyon (Yerkes and Showalter 1993)
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Leland Stanford Junior University Paleontology Collections, eventually transferred to the California Academy of Sciences
Primary reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 193034: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Pugnellus rotundus n. sp." = Lispodesthes rotundatus
"Pugnellus rotundus n. sp." = Lispodesthes rotundatus Waring 1917 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya subelongata Meek 1857 clam | |
"Crassatellites triangulatus n. sp." = Cymbophora triangulata Waring 1917 clam | |
"Venus pertenuis" = Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
"Crassatellites conradianus" = Crassatella conradiana
"Crassatellites conradianus" = Crassatella conradiana Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Glycimeris veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii
"Glycimeris veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Pinna calamitoides Shumard 1858 oyster | |
Inoceramus whitneyi Gabb 1869 clam
Inoceramus pembertoni n. sp. Waring 1917 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Placenticeras sanctaemonicae n. sp." = Metaplacenticeras sanctaemonicae, "Placenticeras pacificum" = Metaplacenticeras pacificum, "Placenticeras californicum" = Metaplacenticeras californicum
"Placenticeras sanctaemonicae n. sp." = Metaplacenticeras sanctaemonicae Waring 1917 ammonite
"Placenticeras pacificum" = Metaplacenticeras pacificum Smith 1900 ammonite
"Placenticeras californicum" = Metaplacenticeras californicum Anderson 1902 ammonite |