SDNHM Loc. 3162-M - Near Top of Section (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176401: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

• SDSNH specimens.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae