LACMIP 21554, Poison Oak Canyon (Paleocene to of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Susana Formation, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)

• Probably near the Danian-Selandian boundary

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P.L. Goldman; 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 184018: 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