LACMIP loc. 26011, Old Cow Creek (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 6011

Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 86.4° W)

When: Hooten Gulch Mudstone Member (Redding Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• Redding Formation, Member V (basal part). Age: Late Coniacian

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, muddy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe in 1969; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2011. Northeast Pacific Cretaceous record of Pyropsis (Neogastropoda: Pyropsidae) and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 85(6):1199-1215 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229161: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 18.02.2023

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis louellae n. sp. Squires 2011 snail