Also known as UCLA loc. 1581

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.6° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Francisquito Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lower San Francisquito Formation, upper Danian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.W. Webb, E.H. Quayle in 1941; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. P. Popenoe and L. R. Saul. 1987. Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys. Contributions in Science 380:1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184015: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Vanessa Maciel on 25.01.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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