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

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