UCLA loc. 3917, Texas Springs area (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• Hard dark brown concretionary graywacke.

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
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia iberica n. sp. Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
Meekia roddana Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Nelltia angulata Gabb 1864 tellin clam