ammonites
CAS Loc. 699 - Simi Hills (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.2° N, 118.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 88.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Campanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Not reported in text, but apparently siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and facies descriptions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Anderson; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: F. M. Anderson. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Science (CAS).

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86816: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.02.2009

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