Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 98.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Float derived from lower Santa Susana Formation, "Martinez marine member,"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. L. Squires in 25, 1996; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 69315: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2007, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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