Also known as LSJU 2224

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.6° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 106.1° W)

When: Matilija Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Described in reference as Oligocene. Matilija Formation is Eocene per Vedder 1972 (USGS Bulletin 1354-D). AGE: revised to Lutetian and "Matilija Sandstone" following EPICC stratigraphic revision.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. M. Weaver and R. M. Kleinpell. 1963. Oligocene biostratigraphy of the Santa Barbara embayment, California: Part II: Mollusca from the Turritella variata zone. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 43:81-164 [E. Clites/E. Clites]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194412: authorized by Erica Clites, entered by Erica Clites on 19.06.2018

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