LACMIP loc. 10764, Little Cow Creek valley (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 1446 in Popenoe et al., 1987, and Saul and Popenoe 1993; erroneously listed as CIT loc. 1466 in Squires and Saul 2004; UCLA loc. 3290; LACMIP loc. 23290

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 85.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bellavista Sandstone Member (Redding Formation), Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Redding Formation, Bella Vista Sandstone Member. Age: Turonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe in 23, 1940; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: D. L. Jones, W. V. Sliter, and W. P. Popenoe. 1978. Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice 4:1-13 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220373: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 24.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Liocium punctatum Gabb 1869 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Remera vacca n. sp.2
Remera vacca n. sp.2 Saul and Popenoe 1993 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis Gabb 1869 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Gymnarus manubriatus Gabb 1864 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli White 1889 moon snail
Natica conradiana1 Gabb 1864 moon snail
as ssp. Natica conradiana vacculae
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Biplica isoplicata Popenoe 1957 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea malleiformis Gabb 1864 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida Gabb 1864 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula vacca3 Squires and Saul 2004 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Calva regina" = Calva (Calva) regina
"Calva regina" = Calva (Calva) regina Popenoe 1937 venus clam