Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 99.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Susana Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Lower Thanetian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.S. Alderson in 1980; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2007. Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. The Nautilus 121(1):1-16 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184014: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Vanessa Maciel on 25.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell |