LACMIP loc. 27228, Hornbrook area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 7228

Where: Siskiyou County, California (41.9° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 86.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Osburger Gulch Sandstone Member (Hornbrook Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Gaona in June, 1984; 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 62362: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Aphanoptyxis californica Saul and Squires 1998 snail