Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Timms Point Silt Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHY: Reassigned to Timms Point Silt (Hendy, 2021). AGE: Reassigned to middle Pleistocene, the accepted age of the Timms Point Silt (Hendy, 2021).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by John Q Burch, Tom Burch, Effie M. Clark, G. Willett in 1937; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: G. Willett. 1937. Additions to knowledge of the fossil invertebrate fauna of California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 36(2):61-64 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 200409: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 02.04.2019, edited by Mark Uhen, Matthew Clapham and Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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Gastropoda | |
Barleeia oldroydi Bartsch 1920 snail | |
"Natica russa" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Natica russa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
"Triphora fossilis n. sp." = Monophorus fossilis
"Triphora fossilis n. sp." = Monophorus fossilis Willett 1937 snail | |
Vitrinella stearnsi Bartsch 1907 snail | |
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"Velutina laevigata" = Velutina velutina
"Velutina laevigata" = Velutina velutina Müller 1776 snail | |
"Trivia ritteri" = Dolichupis ritteri
"Trivia ritteri" = Dolichupis ritteri Raymond 1903 snail | |
"Epitonium sawinae" = Hirtoscala sawinae, "Epitonium catalinae" = Hirtoscala catalinae
"Epitonium sawinae" = Hirtoscala sawinae Dall 1903 wentletrap
"Epitonium catalinae" = Hirtoscala catalinae Dall 1908 wentletrap | |
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"Leptothyra subobsoleta n. sp." = Homalopoma (Homalopoma) subobsoletum
"Leptothyra subobsoleta n. sp." = Homalopoma (Homalopoma) subobsoletum Willett 1937 snail | |
Puncturella delosi Arnold 1907 puncturella
Puncturella cooperi Carpenter 1864 puncturella | |
Acmaea funiculata Carpenter 1864 limpet | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium rectius" = Rhabdus rectius
"Dentalium rectius" = Rhabdus rectius Carpenter 1864 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten hastatus" = Chlamys hastata1
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"Macoma carlottensis" = Psammacoma carlottensis
"Macoma carlottensis" = Psammacoma carlottensis Whiteaves 1880 tellin clam | |
"Pseudochama granti" = Chama granti
"Pseudochama granti" = Chama granti Strong 1934 jewel box | |
"Panomya turgida" = Panomya norvegica
"Panomya turgida" = Panomya norvegica Spengler 1793 clam | |
Polyplacophora | |
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Mopalia imporcata Carpenter 1864 chiton |