Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 104.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Llajas Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• "Stewart bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Squires in 1978; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1984. Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350:1-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201697: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 21.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pachycrommium clarki Stewart 1927 snail
Eocernina hannibali Dickerson 1914 snail | |
Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis Gabb 1864 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Teredo ? sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle | |
Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam |