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
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
Cephalopoda | |
Metaplacenticeras californicum Anderson 1902 ammonite
Metaplacenticeras pacificum Smith 1900 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lembulus ? striatula" = Leda striatula
"Lembulus ? striatula" = Leda striatula Forbes 1846 pointed nut clam | |
Martesia ? clausa Gabb 1864 clam | |
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Cymbophora ashburnerii Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Trigonocallista bowersiana" = Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana, Legumen ooides
"Trigonocallista bowersiana" = Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana Cooper 1894 venus clam
Legumen ooides Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail | |
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"Margarites ornatissima" = Atira ornatissima
"Margarites ornatissima" = Atira ornatissima Gabb 1864 snail | |
"Actaeon normalis" = Nonacteonina normalis
"Actaeon normalis" = Nonacteonina normalis Cooper 1894 snail | |
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