UCLA loc. 3817, Coyote Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Paleopsephaea sacramentica Murphy and Rodda 1960 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis silveradoensis Packard 1922 clam