San Diego County, Cabrillo: Maastrichtian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Wilbertopora sp. Cheetham 1954
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
? Balantiostoma sp.
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Aechmella sp. Canu and Bassler 1917
Reptolunulites sp. d'Orbigny 1852
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 117.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 93.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rosario Formation:Cabrillo
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: also found in the Point Loma Formation of Maastrichtian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87393
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Nimke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-17 01:44:30 Last modified:2009-03-17 03:44:30
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29418. P. D. Taylor. 2008. Late Cretaceous cheilostome Bryozoans from California and Baja California. Journal of Paleontology 82(4):823-834 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke/J. Alroy]