UCLA loc. 5990, French Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 25990

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 86.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hooten Gulch Member (Redding Formation), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Popenoe in 1959; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. P. Elder and L. R. Saul. 1996. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Coniacian through Maastrichtian Anchura (Gastropoda; Aporrhaiidae) of the North American Pacific slope. Journal of Paleontology 70(3):381-399 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3887: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.08.1999, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissitys cretacea Cooper 1896 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura (Helicaulax) popenoei n. sp. Elder and Saul 1996 snail