LACMIP #7418 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 104.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llajas Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Below the "Stewart Bed", middle of the Llajas Formation, "Domengine" stage, middle of CP12a calcareous nannoplankton zone, lower Lutetian stage, Middle Eocene, C22n chron.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, bioturbated sandstone

• Listed as "shallow marine transgressive".
• Alternating laminated and bioturbated sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the LACM

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, and B.L. Clark (1928)

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2001. Additions to the Eocene megafossil fauna of the Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, southern California. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 489:1-40 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51923: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca, corals, arthropoda, and includes other groups where obvserved; list compiled from meticulous search of the invert collections at the LACM, private collections and fieldwork.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Amaurellina caleocia Vokes 1939 moon snail