CIT 381 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as This is a composite of lists entered elsewhere: this should be retired.

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 116.0° 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; brown shale and coarse-grained sandstone

• soft brown shale with coarse sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 582: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.1999, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Stomiidae
Chauliodus barbatus Garman 1899
as Chauliodus barbatus frazeri
 Perciformes - Zaproridae
Araeosteus rothi Jordan and Gilbert 1920 perch-like fish
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scomber sp. Linnaeus 1758