LACMIP loc. 2853, Arroyo Santa Catarina (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (29.5° N, 115.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 87.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rosario Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. L. Webster in 1966; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: M. L. Webster. 1983. New Species of Xenophora and Anchura (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Cretaceous of Baja California Norte, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 57(5):1090-1097 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190525: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 10.12.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Opalia cavea n. sp.1
Opalia cavea n. sp.1 Squires and Saul 2003 wentletrap
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora willisi Webster 1983 carrier shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula lomana2 Squires and Saul 2004 clam