LACMIP loc. 28757, Thompson Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Yolo County, California (38.6° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yolo Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• 3425 m below top of exposed Chico Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithology not reported

• Petrologic evidence suggests that the randomly interbedded mudstones, shales, and sandstones of the Yolo Formation were deposited as basinplain turbidite deposits within the Great Valley forearc basin sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. W. Reinhart

Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178509: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Igonoia shastana n. sp.2
Igonoia shastana n. sp.2 Squires 2011 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Eocypraea (Eocypraea) louellae n. sp.
Eocypraea (Eocypraea) louellae n. sp. Groves 1990 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris yoloensis n. sp.1
Glycymeris yoloensis n. sp.1 Squires 2010 clam
1Squires 2010; 2Squires 2011