LACMIP loc. 10716, Simi Hills (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 1538; UCLA loc. 6464; LACMIP loc. 26464

Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 88.8° W)

When: Chatsworth Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Middle Campanian.

Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly conglomerate and massive sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. T & G. P. Zebal in 25, 1942

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2003. New Late Cretaceous epitoniid and zygopleurid gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 46(1):20-49 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220412: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. rex Anderson 1958 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutoderma sp. Gabb 1877 volute
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Zebalia suciaensis Packard 1922 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Cox 1937 clam
 Trigoniida - Steinmanellidae
Yaadia sp. Crickmay 1930 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia sp. Gabb 1864 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam