Also known as LACMIP 27108
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 99.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coal Canyon Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• AGE: Changed to Thanetian following EPICC stratigraphic revision [A. Hendy, 6/2020].
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1990. New Paleogene Siliquariid and Vermetid Gastropods from the Pacific Coast of Southwestern North America. The Veliger 33(3):286-292 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185199: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella infragranulata Gabb 1864 turret shell | |
Tenagodus californiensis Squires 1990 snail |