Where: Tehama County, California (40.2° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 86.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kingsley Cave Member (Chico Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P.U. Rodda in 1954; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: W. P. Elder and L. R. Saul. 1996. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Coniacian through Maastrichtian Anchura (Gastropoda; Aporrhaiidae) of the North American Pacific slope. Journal of Paleontology 70(3):381-399 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185150: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Anchura callosa Whiteaves 1903 snail |