CAS loc. 61856. Fitch Ranch, 3.2 km W of Phoenix, 0.8 km S of Fitch's house (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea argonautica n. sp." = Bernaya (Protocypraea) argonautica
"Cypraea argonautica n. sp." = Bernaya (Protocypraea) argonautica Anderson 1958 cowry