CIT Loc. 975 - El Toro [Pleasants Sandstone] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 8186

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 87.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleasants Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Pleasants Sandstone, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Upper Campanian in text; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Not stated in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Popenoe in 1933; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Popenoe, 1933. REPOSITORY: California Institute of Technology (at the time).

Primary reference: W. P. Popenoe. 1942. Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 26(2):162-187 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86793: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes multiple taxa reported in several publications; exhaustive for Ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publications, but comprising variable nomenclatural quality and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Metaplacenticeras californicum Anderson 1902 ammonite
Metaplacenticeras pacificum Smith 1900 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Lembulus ? striatula" = Leda striatula
"Lembulus ? striatula" = Leda striatula Forbes 1846 pointed nut clam
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Martesia ? clausa Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia (Mygallia) daileyi2 Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora ashburnerii Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Trigonocallista bowersiana" = Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana, Legumen ooides
"Trigonocallista bowersiana" = Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana Cooper 1894 venus clam
Legumen ooides Gabb 1864 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
? Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutoderma elderi3 Saul and Squires 2008 volute
Volutoderma blakei3 Saul and Squires 2008 volute
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Margarites ornatissima" = Atira ornatissima
"Margarites ornatissima" = Atira ornatissima Gabb 1864 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
"Actaeon normalis" = Nonacteonina normalis
"Actaeon normalis" = Nonacteonina normalis Cooper 1894 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Biplica obliqua1 Gabb 1864 snail