LACMIP loc. 8180, Silverado Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 99

Where: Orange County, California (33.7° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Baker Canyon Member (Ladd Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Ladd Formation, Baker Canyon Member. Age: Turonian.

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. N. Moore in 1928; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. P. Popenoe. 1942. Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 26(2):162-187 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220370: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 24.05.2021

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella gamma Popenoe 1937 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula traskii" = Caryocorbula traskii, Excorbula coqua3
"Corbula traskii" = Caryocorbula traskii Gabb 1864 clam
misspelled as "Corbula traski"
Excorbula coqua3 Squires and Saul 2004 clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Isocardia delta Popenoe 1937 clam
questionable occurrence
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Flaventia zeta" = Paraesa zeta, "Aphrodina arata" = Callistalox arata
"Flaventia zeta" = Paraesa zeta Popenoe 1937 venus clam
"Aphrodina arata" = Callistalox arata Gabb 1864 venus clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea inflata Gabb 1864 clam
questionable occurrence
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia klamathonia2 Anderson 1958 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna bellarugosa Popenoe 1937 mussel
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema operculiformis Gabb 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima beta Popenoe 1937 file clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp.1 Lamarck 1799 ammonite