LACMIP 24337 - Pentz Road Mbr, Chico Fm (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCLA Loc. 4337

Where: Butte County, California (39.6° N, 121.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 89.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pentz Road Member (Chico Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pentz Road Mbr (informal) of Chico Fm. Lithostratigraphy not discussed here, but can be found in Squires and Saul (2003). AGE: Lower Campanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within Pentz Road Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental reported. Presumably shallow-water siliciclastic marine.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology, presumably sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Göhre. REPOSITORY: LACMIP.

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2005. New Late Cretaceous (Santonian and Campanian) gastropods from California and Baja California, Mexico. The Nautilus 119(4):133-148 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69313: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2007, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Only includes some gastropoda. Other mollusca mentioned to be present, but not specified. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, modern nomenclature, with species-level identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea -
Bullamirifica elegans Squires and Saul 2005 snail
 Trochoidea - Tegulidae
Tegula jeanae Squires and Saul 2005 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Nerita ? orovillensis Squires and Saul 2005 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora stantoni Arnold 1908 clam