UCLA loc. 2307, Meier Canyon (Paleocene to of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 22307

Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 97.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Susana Formation, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)

• Lower Santa Susana Fm. Paleocene, ?late Danian or early Selandian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Popenoe in 1946; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul. 1988. Latest Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Tudiclidae and Melongenidae (Gastropoda) From the Pacific Slope of North-America. Journal of Paleontology 62(6):880-889 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220448: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 01.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
? Pyropsis gabbi Stanton 1896 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Retipirula crassitesta3 Gabb 1869 volute
 Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
Heteroterma acrita n. sp.2 Saul 1988 snail
Heteroterma trochoidea2 Gabb 1869 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Propustularia kemperae1 Nelson 1925 cowry