San Pedro: Miocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Cataphracti - Ophiodontidae
Ozymandias gilberti n. gen., n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Alisea grandis n. gen., n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
Mammalia - Cetacea
Phocaena occidua (Leidy 1868)
recombined as Lonchodelphis occiduus
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Urobatis halleri (Cooper 1863)
Jordan and Gilbert 1919
original and current combination Urolophus halleri
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pseudamusium) pedroanus (Trask 1856)
Arnold 1906
nomen dubium belonging to Delectopecten
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 118.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 113.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: hard flinty sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:186028
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-06-06 15:01:15 Last modified:2017-06-06 15:01:15
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-06 15:01:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24992. 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]

Secondary references:

71229 R. Arnold. 1906. Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. USGS Professional Paper 47:1-264 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
62416 D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1919. Fossil fishes of the Pliocene formations of Southern California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 61-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]