LACMIP 21607, Simi Valley (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Susana Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Lower upper Paleocene (lower Thanetian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kinney, Sherman; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2007. Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. The Nautilus 121(1):1-16 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Vanessa Maciel on 25.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell