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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Number 159 
Family Clupeidae 
Genus t Alisea Jordan and Gilbert 1919a 
f Alisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert 1919a 
Figure 3 
Selected Synonymy & References 
t Alisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert 1919a:28, pi. 17, fig. 3. 
■fAlisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert: Jordan 192 la:245, pi. 27b (restoration). 
\Alisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert: Grande 1985:303-309. 
Type Specimen : f Alisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert, holotype, CAS 55468 (SU 135,119), partial right and left 
counterparts. Clupeidae. 
Type Locality : San Pedro, formation not given, Miocene, Los Angeles County. 
Referred Specimens : None. 
R&ferr^ None. 
Remarks : Grande (1985:309) stated “It is doubtful whether this poorly preserved specimen wanranted descrip¬ 
tion as a new taxon.” 
Figure 3. t Alisea grandis Jordan and Gilbert 1919a, holotype, CAS 55468 (from color image provided by CAS); scale bar equals 
5 cm. 
Genus Clupea Linnaeus 1758 
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes 1847 
Selected Synonymy & References (fossils only) 
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes 1847: Fitch 1967:9, 19-21. 
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes: Fitch 1968:7. 
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes: Fitch 1969a: 72, table 1. 
Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes: Fitch and Lavenberg 1975:43. 
Clupea pallasi Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes: Nolf 1985:47. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, no types known (Eschmeyer 
1998:1271). 
Type Locality : Kamchatka, Russia. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch (1968:7) : No specific specimens or locality. He gave the general statement that 
otoliths have been found in several southern California Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch (T969a:table 1) : No specific specimens, but he listed the number of otoliths of 
C. pallasii that were found in the following Pliocene localities: 
From LACMIP locality 471 (= LACM locality 3802), Upper Newport Bay, Upper Fernando Formation, 
