LACMIP loc. 26967, Garapito Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis aldersoni n. sp. Squires 2011 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella iota Popenoe 1937 turret shell