LACMIP loc. 10488, east of Pacheco Road (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Weaver loc. 2080

Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 101.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Vine Hill Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Upper Vine Hill Sandstone. Paleocene, Thanetian.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• shallow-water nearshore facies

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul. 1988. Latest Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Tudiclidae and Melongenidae (Gastropoda) From the Pacific Slope of North-America. Journal of Paleontology 62(6):880-889 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220453: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 01.06.2021

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis striata Stanton 1896 snail