Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 86.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Hooten Gulch Mudstone Member (Redding Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• Redding Formation, Member V. Age: Probably late Coniacian.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Unknown; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2004. The pseudomelaniid gastropod Paosia from the marine Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and a review of the age and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):484-500 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220363: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 24.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Paosia ursula Anderson 1958 snail |