SDNHM Loc. 3454 - Carlsbad area, north of Palomar Airport (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (33.1° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 87.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Point Loma Formation (Rosario Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• base of CC 22 = 75.5 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Riney in 1986

• collected by Brad Riney

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 176402: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae