Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 101.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Susana Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• 25 feet below basal conglomerate of Demengine stage. Age indicated as Eocene but current references point to Paleocene (probably upper Paleocene) age of Santa Susana Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, gray, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: B. L. Clark and A. O. Woodford. 1927. The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 17(2):63-142 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36862: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella meganosensis n. sp. Clark and Woodford 1927 turret shell | |
Ficopsis meganosensis n. sp.
Ficopsis meganosensis n. sp. Clark and Woodford 1927 fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Lyonsia venturaensis n. sp.
Lyonsia venturaensis n. sp. Clark and Woodford 1927 clam | |
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Anthozoa | |
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