UCLA loc. 5431, Punta San Jose: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
Rapopsis joseana Saul 1988
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Murphitys madonna Popenoe and Saul 1987
Popenoe and Saul 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Baja California
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 116.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.9° North, 93.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rosario
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Rosario Fm. Cretaceous, early Maastrichtian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Also known as:LACMIP loc. 25431
Database number:220452
Authorizer:J. Marcot Enterer:J. Marcot
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2021-06-01 14:34:37 Last modified:2021-06-01 14:34:37
Access level:the public Released:2021-06-01 14:34:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74398. 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]

Secondary references:

243791% 7220W. P. Popenoe and L. R. Saul. 1987. Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys. Contributions in Science 380:1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]