CIT loc. 1204, Dry Creek, Redding area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 10768

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bellavista Sandstone Member (Redding Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Redding Formation, Bellavista Sandstone Member. Turonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 222077: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 08.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
? Collignoniceras sp. Breistroffer 1947 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Acteonella frazierensis Anderson 1958 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina pseudoalveata Packard 1922 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes conradiana" = Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana, "Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli
"Gyrodes conradiana" = Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana Gabb 1864 moon snail
"Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli White 1889 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Gymnarus manubriatus Gabb 1864 snail
"Anchura condoniana" = Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana Anderson 1902 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis Gabb 1869 volute
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea malleiformis Gabb 1864 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida Gabb 1864 clam