Also known as UCLA loc. 6967
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tuna Canyon Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Tuna Canyon Formation, lower part. Age: Late Turonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. M. Alderson in 31, 1981; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 48(1):46-60 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 222135: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 13.09.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pyropsis aldersoni n. sp.
Pyropsis aldersoni n. sp. Squires 2011 snail | |
Turritella iota Popenoe 1937 turret shell |