Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 85.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bear Creek Sandstone Member (Redding Formation), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, massive sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. P. Popenoe and W. M. Tovell in 10, 1941; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 1998. New Cretaceous Gastropoda from California. Palaeontology 41(3):461-488 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62351: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Diozoptyxis ursana n. sp.
Diozoptyxis ursana n. sp. Saul and Squires 1998 snail |