CIT Loc. 320: Middle Pleistocene, California
collected by A. Clark 1929

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Monia macrochisma Deshayes 1839
R category
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina culcitella (Gould 1853)
R category
Acteocina harpa (Dall 1871)
R category
Gastropoda - Solariellidae
Solariella peramabilis Carpenter 1864
R category
recombined as Minolia peramabilis
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Astraea inaequalis (Martyn 1784)
R category
    = Pomaulax gibberosa Dillwyn 1817
Hendy 2020
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Puncturella cucullata (Gould 1846)
R category
recombined as Craniopsis cucullata
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Antiplanes perversa (Gabb 1865)
R category
recombined as Spirotropis (Antiplanes) perversa
Antiplanes rotula Dall 1921
C category
synonym of Antiplanes thalea
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Bittium cf. rugatum Carpenter 1866
C category
recombined as Lirobittium rugatum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Clathurella crystallina Gabb 1865
R category
recombined as Crockerella crystallina
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Borsonella barbarensis Dall 1919
R category
Borsonella bartschi (Arnold 1903)
C category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus californicus Reeve 1844
R category
recombined as Californiconus californicus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Barbarofusus barbarensis (Trask 1855)
C category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius perpinguis (Hinds 1844)
R category
recombined as Caesia perpinguis
Nassarius mendicus (Gould 1849)
R category
recombined as Hima mendica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Amphissa reticulata (Dall 1916)
R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Neptunea tabulata (Baird 1863)
R category
recombined as Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella biplicata (Sowerby 1825)
C category
recombined as Callianax biplicata
Olivella pedroana (Conrad 1855)
R category
recombined as Callianax pedroana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Boreotrophon orpheus (Gould 1842)
R category
SUBSPECIES: Boreotrophon orpheus praccursor
Boreotrophon multicostatus (Eschscholtz 1829)
R category
Tritonalia barbarensis (Gabb 1865)
R category
recombined as Paciocinebrina barbarensis
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Fusitriton oregonensis (Redfield 1846)
R category
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira lewisii (Gould 1847)
R category
Tectonatica clausa (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
R category
synonym of Cryptonatica affinis
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula lingulata Gould 1846
R category
recombined as Crepipatella lingulata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864
R category
Turritella jewettii Carpenter 1866
C category
synonym of Turritella cooperi
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae
Pandora filosa (Carpenter 1863)
R category
recombined as Pandora (Pandorella) filosa
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia trapezoides Conrad 1849
R category
recombined as Thracia (Homoeodesma) trapezoides
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma inquinata (Deshayes 1855)
R category
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) inquinata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele incongrua Carpenter 1864
R category
synonym of Semele (Amphidesma) venusta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Psephidia ovalis Dall 1902
C category
recombined as Nutricola ovalis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina tenuisculpta Carpenter 1864
C category
recombined as Parvilucina tenuisculpta
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella columbiana Dall 1897
R category
recombined as Solamen columbianum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys jordani (Arnold 1903)
R category
synonym of Chlamys rubida
Chlamys hastatus (Sowerby 1842)
R category
recombined as Chlamys hastata
SUBSPECIES: Chlamys hastatus hastatus
"Pecten" caurinus Gould 1850
R category
recombined as Patinopecten caurinus
Pecten diegensis Dall 1898
C category
recombined as Leopecten diegensis
SUBSPECIES: Pecten diegensis stearnsii
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 118.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 118.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Timms Point Silt
Local section:Timms Point Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From "Timms Point beds", which locally overly Miocene shale. AGE: Pleistocene, following Clark (1931), but edited to middle Pleistocene by enterer on the basis of established modern age control. STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: In middle and upper portion of bed no. 1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: shale. LITHIFICATION: not reported in text, but fossils in LACMIP collection from these localities are unlithified.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: fauna is characteristic of offshore soft-bottom settings.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:CIT,LACM
Collectors:A. Clark Collection dates:1929
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: A. Clark, 1929. REPOSITORY: LACMIP, including former CIT collections.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for invertebrates. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but mostly with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:202637
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-07-16 16:02:11 Last modified:2019-07-16 16:55:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2020-01-16 16:02:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69437. A. Clark. 1931. The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 7:25-42 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

63217 A. J. W. Hendy. 2020. Unpublished taxonomic backbone for Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) Thematic Collections Network. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]