Also known as LACMIP Loc. 16337
Where: Ventura County, California (34.0° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 102.2° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Llajas Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• The stewart bed, from which most fossils reported in this reference are drawn, is a 1 m thick sandstone unit in the middle of the LLajas formation. This collection is from 155 m above the Stewart Bed, in the upper Llajas Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1983. New Mollusks from the Lower Middle Eocene Llajas Formation, Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 57(2):354-362 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8016: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 12.06.2000, edited by Linda Ivany and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell | |
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Cylichnina tantilla Anderson and Hanna 1925 snail | |
Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus Gabb 1864 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni Weaver and Palmer 1922 clam | |
"Pinna lewisi" = Pinna (Pinna) lewisi
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