Shatto Street and Lucas Avenue: Late/Upper Pliocene, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles rectus
(Agassiz 1856)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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| recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Cryptomya californica
(Conrad 1837)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Lasaeidae
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Chironia suborbicularis
(Montague 1803)
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| recombined as Kellia suborbicularis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra (Spisula) catilliformis
(Conrad 1867)
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| recombined as Mactromeris catilliformis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Petricola denticulata
Sowerby 1834
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| recombined as Petricola (Petricolirus) denticulata | |||||||
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Venerupis (Protothaca) staleyi
(Gabb 1866)
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| recombined as Leukoma staleyi | |||||||
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Compsomyax subdiaphana
(Carpenter 1864)
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina californica
(Conrad 1837)
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| original and current combination Phacoides californicus | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula princeps
Conrad 1855
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Cancellaria tritonidea
(Gabb 1866)
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| recombined as Euclia tritonidea | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Los Angeles |
| Coordinates: | 34.1° North, 118.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 117.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fernando |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,gray,green silty,sandy "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "silty and sandy shales of a buff to olive gray and brownish gray color, with a few thin layers of conglomerate, small pebbles, and fragments of molluscan fossils. The rich molluscan fossil zone near the top of the exposed section consists in places of about 30 to 40 per cent broken and unbroken calcareous shells. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CIT,LACM |
| Collection method comments: These collections are now located at the University of California at Los Angeles, the California Institute of Technology, and the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Shatto Estate, West Los Angeles | ||
| Database number: | 200412 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-04-02 22:16:19 | Last modified: | 2019-04-02 22:16:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-04-02 22:16:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 68410. | E. K. Soper and U. S. Grant, IV. 1932. Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 43(4):1041-1068 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |