Also known as LACMIP loc. 23917
Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 82.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ono Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Peter U. Rodda in 1955; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. R. Saul and W. P. Popenoe. 1962. Meekia - Enigmatic Cretaceous pelecypod genus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 40(5):289-344 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224666: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 25.03.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Meekia iberica n. sp., Meekia roddana
Meekia iberica n. sp. Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
Meekia roddana Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam | |
Nelltia angulata Gabb 1864 tellin clam |