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Well-represented in both freshwater and marine fossils since the Devonian, they are now represented by only two extant marine species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa, and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). [4]
Paleontology in California refers to paleontologist research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of California. California contains rocks of almost every age from the Precambrian to the Recent . During the early Paleozoic, California was covered by a warm shallow sea inhabited by marine invertebrates such as ammonites ...
Bones from sea mammals and fish occur in La Jollan middens, but they are not abundant. Fish remains usually represent near-shore species, pointing to a littoral rather than maritime economy. The La Jolla complex was initially characterized as the Shell Midden people by Malcolm J. Rogers , the region's pioneering archaeologist.
The San Diego Formation Basin is a confined shallow aquifer. It has a basin ground surface area of 79,724 acres (32,263 ha) and an estimated groundwater storage capacity of 960,000 AF. The depth to groundwater is about 100 feet (30 m). [ 3] The groundwater in the San Diego Formation is brackish, and its quality is considered to be fair to poor ...
Synonyms. Placodermata. Placoderms (from Greek πλάξ ( plax, plakos) ' plate ' and δέρμα ( derma) 'skin') [ 1] are vertebrate animals of the class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Paleozoic fossils during the Silurian and the Devonian periods. While their endoskeletons are mainly cartilaginous, their head and ...
The fish spotted by oceangoers on August 10 was 12 feet long, according to the institution. The fish had already died at the time of the discovery, and was found near the shores of La Jolla Cove.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center for oceanography and Earth science based at the University of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located in La Jolla, with additional facilities in Point Loma . Founded in 1903 and incorporated into the University of California system in 1912, the institution has since broadened ...
Gar. Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. They comprise seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine waters of eastern North America, Central America and Cuba in the Caribbean, [ 1][ 2] though extinct members of the family were more widespread. They are the ...