Where: Baja California, Mexico (28.2° N, 115.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 80.9° W)
When: Pinos Formation (Valle Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Valle Group, Pinos Formation. Age: Late Cretaceous (Turonian).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. L. Jones in 1976; 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 220405: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
"? Glauconia robusta" = Turritella robusta
"? Glauconia robusta" = Turritella robusta Gabb 1864 turret shell | |
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Cedrosia pacifica Saul and Squires 2003 horn snail | |
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Aphanoptyxis californica Saul and Squires 1998 snail | |