Santa Monica Slate - Small Canyon west of Mandeville Canyon (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 62.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Monica Slate Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; slate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by C.E. Corbata, Barry Raleigh, N.J. Silberling, and J.E. Schoellhamer ; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1963. Jurassic Fossils from Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 37(1):97-107 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163031: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 09.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia cf. concentrica White 1888 scallop