LACMIP loc. 30141, Lake Nacimiento (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.8° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 97.0° W)

When: El Piojo Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• El Piojo Formation. Age: Early late Maastrichtian.

Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by unknown; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. New Late Cretaceous mytilid and tellinoidean bivalves from California. The Veliger 48(3):121-135 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220396: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.05.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
? Volutoderma "n. sp."1
? Volutoderma "n. sp."1 Gabb 1877 volute
LACMIP 13217
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Tessarolax teleos2
Tessarolax teleos2 Saul and Squires 2015 snail
erroneously listed from "LACMIP loc. 301410"
1Saul and Squires 2008; 2Saul and Squires 2015