Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 118.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Saugus Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. N. Waterfall in 1925; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. N. Waterfall. 1929. A contribution to the paleontology of the Fernando Group, Ventura County, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 18(3):71-92 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 220008: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula saugusensis n. sp.
Crepidula saugusensis n. sp. Waterfall 1929 slipper shell |