LACIMP loc. 20343, Stone Canyon Reservoir, Santa Monica Mountains (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 343

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 98.1° W)

When: Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis other zone, Santa Susana Formation, Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)

• Santa Susana Formation; SeĀ­landian (Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis Zone).

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bryson and Curry in 1933; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 1997. Taxonomy and Distribution of the Buccinid Gastropod Brachysphingus from Uppermost Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic Marine Strata of the Pacific Slope of North America. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):847-861 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218471: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 23.02.2021

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Brachysphingus gibbosus Nelson 1925 true whelk