CSUN Loc. 525, Las Llajas Canyon, Santa Susana Mountains (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.3° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 104.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone

• Shallow-marine (transgressive) facies.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. L. Squires in 1983; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1984. Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350:1-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 207168: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 31.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus carlosensis
Spondylus carlosensis Anderson 1905 scallop
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida -
Eogryphus tolmani
Eogryphus tolmani Hertlein and Grant IV 1944
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Trochocyathus striatus
? Trochocyathus striatus Gabb 1864 stony coral