LACMIP loc. 26600, Blanchard Flat (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 6600

Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ogo Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Budden Canyon Formation, Ogo Member. Age: Late Cretaceous (late Hauterivian).

Environment/lithology: marine; gray mudstone and coarse-grained sandstone

• dark to light gray mudstone with minor coarse sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. R. and R. B. Saul in August, 1979; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 1997. New species of neritid gastropods from Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic strata of the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 40(2):131-147 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220302: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.05.2021

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Nerita (Amphinerita) eos n. sp. Saul and Squires 1997 snail