Also known as UCLA loc. 6346
Where: Stanislaus County, California (36.9° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 96.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian to Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Moreno Formation, Tierra Loma Shale Member. Age: Late early to early late Maastrichtian.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. B. Stewart and W. P. Popenoe in 1944; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 2008. Cretaceous trichotropid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America: Possible pathways to calyptraeid morphology. The Nautilus 122(3):115-142 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176784: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.03.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cidarina beta Squires and Saul 2003 snail
Cidarina cretacea Squires and Saul 2003 snail |