LACMIP loc. 25272, Cherry Hill, near Phoenix (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCLA loc. 5272

Where: Jackson County, Oregon (42.3° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hornbrook Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Hornbrook Formation. Age: Turonian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Takeo Susuki in 1962; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 48(1):46-60 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86792: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella hearni Merriam 1941 turret shell