Also known as UCLA loc. 3312
Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 97.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Great Valley Group, Early/Lower Maastrichtian to Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Great Valley Sequence. Age: “Mid“ Maastrichtian (late early to middle late).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. P. Popenoe in 1944; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2011. A new genus of Cretaceous margaritine gastropod (Turbinidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The Nautilus 125(3):137-149 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221990: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 04.09.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
Atira inornata Gabb 1864 snail
Igonoia muiri n. sp. Squires 2011 snail |