Also known as CAS loc. 445-A
Where: Jackson County, California (42.2° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 83.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Gulch Member (Hornbrook Formation), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176025: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea argonautica n. sp." = Bernaya (Protocypraea) argonautica
"Cypraea argonautica n. sp." = Bernaya (Protocypraea) argonautica Anderson 1958 cowry |