Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 104.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Llajas Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Immediately above the "Stewart Bed", middle of the Llajas Formation, "Domengine" stage, base of CP12b calcareous nannoplankton zone, lower Lutetian stage, Middle Eocene, C21r chron.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the LACM
• Collected by R.L. Squires, (1978)
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2001. Additions to the Eocene megafossil fauna of the Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, southern California. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 489:1-40 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51921: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.07.2005, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Pseudophragmina (Proporocyclina) clarki" = Pseudophragmina clarki
"Pseudophragmina (Proporocyclina) clarki" = Pseudophragmina clarki Cushman 1920 | |
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus stantoni Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Nayadina (Exputens) llajasensis Clark 1934 oyster |