Also known as UCLA loc. 5281
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• Reworked Paleocene (Selandian) fossils in middle Miocene Calabasas Formation, Stokes Canyon Breccia Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Stark, T.Susuki family in 1965; 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 185138: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.04.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell | |
Brachysphingus gibbosus Nelson 1925 true whelk |