Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 101.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Juncal Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Juncal Fm, which unconformably overlies pre-Tertiary gneiss and granitic basement, and is overlain by the Towsley Fm (Pliocene). AGE: late Early Eocene, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near the base of the section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Squires and Walker in 2006; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: R. Squires, and S. Walker, 2006. REPOSITORY: LACMIP, Los Angeles.
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2008. Eocene megapaleontology, stratigraphy, and depositional environments, Elsmere Canyon, Los Angeles County, California. Contributions in Science (517)1-16 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111554: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.06.2011, edited by Katherine Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni Weaver and Palmer 1922 clam | |
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 clam | |
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
? Acteon sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Turricula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Cylichnina tantilla Anderson and Hanna 1925 snail |