LACMIP loc. 27242, Cottonwood Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 7242

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bald Hills Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Budden Canyon Formation, Bald Hills Member. Age: Cenomanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe in April, 1954

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 48(1):46-60 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222136: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 13.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella xylina Squires and Saul 2006 turret shell