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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pyropsis louellae n. sp.
Pyropsis louellae n. sp. Squires 2011 snail |