Locality 7 (of Waring 1917) - Santa Monica Mountains [Coal Canyon Fm] (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Coal Canyon Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• in Hoots 1931 as "Tejon", but mapped as Coal Canyon Formation by Yerkes and Campbell 1980. AGE: Changed to Thanetian following EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 6/2020].

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 193038: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis
"Turritella martinezensis" = Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii
"Cardium brewerii" = Schedocardia brewerii Gabb 1864 cockle
 Solenida - Solenidae
"Solen parallelus" = Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus
"Solen parallelus" = Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus Gabb 1864 clam