Where: San Diego County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 97.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Susana Formation, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Nelson; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. N. Nelson. 1925. A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 15(11):397-466 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 220450: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 01.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Macrocallista furlongi Nelson 1925 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Pyropsis fantozzii Saul 1988 snail |