CSUN Loc. 478: Lutetian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Ventura |
| Coordinates: | 34.3° North, 118.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 104.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 1735 feet | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Llajas | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Stewart Bed" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: Shallow-marine (transgressive) facies | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Collection method comments: Collected by R.L. Squires, (1978) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 201258 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-05-02 11:56:01 | Last modified: | 2019-05-02 11:56:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-05-02 11:56:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59877. | R. L. Squires. 1984. Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350:1-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |