Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 104.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Llajas Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Near top of the Llajas Formation, "Domengine" stage, middle of CP13a calcareous nannoplankton zone, upper Lutetian stage, Middle Eocene, C21n chron. Approximately 74 m below contact with Sespe Formation; collection immediately below PBDB #51924.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the LACM
• Collected by K.E. Lohman, and W. Maitland (1929)
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 51925: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calorebama inornata Dickerson 1915 snail |