Also known as UCLA loc. 4260
Where: Ventura County, California (34.5° N, 119.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 105.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Matilija Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• "Tejon Stage". AGE: revised to Lutetian and "Matilija Sandstone" following EPICC stratigraphic revision.
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1994. Macropaleontology of Eocene marine rocks, upper Sespe Creek area, Ventura County, southern California. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Pacific Section 74:39-56 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 202047: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.06.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Brachidontes cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Calorebama inornata Dickerson 1915 snail | |
| |
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell |