Chico Creek, Chico Formation, Butte (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Butte County, California (39.7° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 86.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Musty Buck Member (Chico Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone
• grey sandstones
Size class: macrofossils
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 62358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Diozoptyxis ursana Saul and Squires 1998 snail | |
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Perissitys elaphia Popenoe and Saul 1987 snail | |