LACMIP loc. 10757, Bear Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 1593

Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 85.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Creek Member (Redding Formation), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Redding Formation, Bear Creek Sandstone. Coniacian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, massive sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe and W. M. Tovell in Sept., 1941; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 2003. New Cretaceous cerithiform gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America. Journal of Paleontology 77(3):442-453 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220404: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.05.2021

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Lysis mickeyi n. sp. Saul and Squires 2008 snail
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? Alamirifica ursa n. sp. Saul and Squires 2003 snail