SDNHM Loc. 3405 - Carlsbad area, off College Boulevard and Palomar Airport Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Diego County, California (33.1° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 87.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Point Loma Formation (Rosario Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• base of CC 22 = 75.5 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Riney in 1986

• collected by Brad Riney

Primary reference: T. L. Ford. 1999. A review of the hadrosaurs from California. In R. D. McCord III & D. Boaz (eds), Southwest Paleontological Symposium – Proceedings 1999. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 6:59-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99313: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner, Jonathan Marcot and Carrie Schweitzer

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
caudal vertebrae; SDNHM 66640
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
 Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
Rapopsis joseana3 Saul 1988 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Longoconcha eumeka n. sp.5 Saul and Squires 2008 volute
Volutoderma perissa n. sp.5 Saul and Squires 2008 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Lysis jalamaca4 Saul and Squires 2008 snail
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia bretoni1 Feldmann and Schweitzer 2021 clawed lobster