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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis Anderson 1958 cowry |