CAS loc. 69104, Texas Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 23893; UCLA loc. 3893

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 77.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chickabally Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Chickabully Member of the Budden Canyon Formation. Further details published in Saul (1982) and Squires and Saul 2003, 2004). AGE: Late Early Albian based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: In general regarded as shallow water, though some units includes assemblages displaced into deeper waters through turbidity currents. Here assigned to a siliciclastic offshore environment on the basis of lithology.
• GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, assumed to be siliciclastic from observations of figured specimens. LITHIFICATION: Assumed lithified based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Unknown; reposited in the CAS, LACM

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: CAS, California.

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 48(1):46-60 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69618: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Only includes Turritella (Gastropoda), therefore very limited. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-level assignments.
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella infralineata
Turritella infralineata Gabb 1864 turret shell