LACMIP loc. 10832, Durham-Pentz Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 1012

Where: Butte County, California (39.7° N, 121.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 90.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pentz Road Member (Chico Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Pentz Road member is an informal member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Popenoe, D. Scharf in 15, 1931; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 1997. Late Cretaceous occurrence on the Pacific slope of North America of the melanopsid gastropod genus Boggsia Olsson, 1929. The Veliger 40:193-202 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210584: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula traskii3 Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora stantoni1 Arnold 1908 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Pentzia hilgardi2 White 1889 snail
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Boggsia tenuis Gabb 1864 snail