Also known as DW 50
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.5° N, 119.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 105.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Cozy Dell Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Described in reference as Oligocene. Cozy Dell Formation is Eocene per Prothero and Britt (1998, Earth and Planetary Science Letters).
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 194435: authorized by Erica Clites, entered by Erica Clites on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii Conrad 1866 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella uvasana Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
"Bittium ? dumblei" = Cerithium dumblei
"Bittium ? dumblei" = Cerithium dumblei Dickerson 1916 cerith snail |