Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 87.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holz Shale Member (Ladd Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• The fossiliferous upper part of the member is dominated by sandstone beds deposited in a deepshelf environment (Squires and Saul, 2001).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nomland, Gestek, & Carlso in 1916; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 2004. New species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeidae (Gastropoda) from California and British Columbia and new records from the Pacific slope. The Nautilus 118(1):43-51 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176369: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.02.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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