UCLA loc. 3114, Simi Hills (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 23114

Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 98.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Susana Formation, Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)

• Lower Santa Susana Fm. Paleocene, early Selandian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. H. Fantozzi in 1953; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul. 1988. Latest Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Tudiclidae and Melongenidae (Gastropoda) From the Pacific Slope of North-America. Journal of Paleontology 62(6):880-889 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207819: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 15.02.2020

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Protobusycon judithae Saul 1988 snail