UCMP 3763, Simi Hills, Calabasas (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.4° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 99.5° W)

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dickerson; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. N. Nelson. 1925. A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 15(11):397-466 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166042: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 03.02.2015, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Hercoglossa merriami Dickerson 1914 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callocardia sinedepressa n. sp. Nelson 1925 venus clam