Where: San Diego County, California (33.1° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 89.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: CC 22 zone, Point Loma Formation (Rosario Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• uppermost Campanian to lowermost Maastrichtian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. O. Riney, T A. Demere, and M. A. Roeder in Mar-May. 1982.
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176399: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.02.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Murphitys madonna n. sp.1
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Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis Anderson 1958 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
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