Also known as LACMIP loc. 23817
Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 85.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Gas Point Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• age after Squires and Saul 2006
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, calcareous conglomerate and nodular, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Peter Rodda in 1955; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda. 1960. Mollusca of the Cretaceous Bald Hills Formation of California. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):835-858 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 215758: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.11.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Paleopsephaea sacramentica Murphy and Rodda 1960 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Limopsis silveradoensis Packard 1922 clam |