LACMIP loc. 21581, East Fork Fish Canyon: Danian, California
collected by R.W. Webb, E.H. Quayle 1941

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Mesalia martinezensis (Gabb 1869)
Squires and Saul 2007
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Brachysphingus gibbosus Nelson 1925
Squires 1997
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissitys stewarti (Zinsmeister 1983)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 118.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 96.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:San Francisquito
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower San Francisquito Formation, upper Danian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Collectors:R.W. Webb, E.H. Quayle Collection dates:1941
Metadata
Also known as:UCLA loc. 1581
Database number:184015
Authorizer:M. Clapham, J. Marcot Enterer:V. Maciel, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-01-25 18:38:15 Last modified:2021-02-23 17:29:16
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-25 18:38:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24379.1% 7220W. P. Popenoe and L. R. Saul. 1987. Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys. Contributions in Science 380:1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

63342 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]
58450 R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2007. Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. The Nautilus 121(1):1-16 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]