UCMP loc. 3003 (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Monterey County, California (36.2° N, 120.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.1° N, 118.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pecten coalingensis other zone, Etchegoin Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Pecten coalingensis zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• "San Joaquin clay near Coalinga"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nomland in 1915; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(14):191-254 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220192: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 11.05.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten hastatus" = Chlamys hastata, "Pecten etchegoini" = Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini, "Pecten coalingensis" = Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis
"Pecten hastatus" = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop
as ssp. Pecten hastatus hindsii
"Pecten etchegoini" = Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini Anderson 1905 scallop
as ssp. Pecten etchegoini nutteri
"Pecten coalingensis" = Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis Arnold 1906 scallop
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Dendraster "sp. B"
Dendraster "sp. B" Agassiz and Desor 1847 sand dollar