Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 107.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Llajas Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Originally described as "Tejon," but now mapped as Llajas Formation (Yerkes and Showalter 1993)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Leland Stanford Junior University Paleontology Collections, eventually transferred to the California Academy of Sciences
Primary reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 193037: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Meretrix hornii" = Macrocallista (Costacallista) hornii, "Marcia conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana
"Meretrix hornii" = Macrocallista (Costacallista) hornii Gabb 1864 venus clam
"Marcia conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Fusinus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez
"Fusinus martinez" = Whitneyella martinez Gabb 1864 snail | |
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell |