1.5 miles East of McCray Wells (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 107.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Llajas Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Originally described as "Tejon," but probably now mapped as Llajas (Yerkes and Campbell 1994)

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 193040: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria chatsworthensis n. sp. Waring 1917 tulip snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea morani n. sp. Waring 1914 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
"Pinna lewisi n. sp." = Pinna (Pinna) lewisi
"Pinna lewisi n. sp." = Pinna (Pinna) lewisi Waring 1914 oyster
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Isocardia tejonensis n. sp." = Nitidavenus tejonensis
"Isocardia tejonensis n. sp." = Nitidavenus tejonensis Waring 1914 venus clam