UCMP loc. 2142, Corona: Late/Upper Turonian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais vetus Packard 1922
3 specimens
recombined as Alarimella veta
Alaria nodosa Packard 1922
recombined as Latiala nodosa
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panope californica n. sp. Packard 1922
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
? Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Subprionocyclus cf. normalis (Anderson 1958)
Matsumoto 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 117.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 81.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ladd Member:Holz
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Holz Shale Mbr of Ladd Fm. Lithostratigraphy not discussed here, but revised details can be found in Squires and Saul (2001). AGE: Late Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower portion of lower shale = lower part of Holz Shale Mbr.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental reported. Presumably shallow-water siliciclastic marine.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. L. Packard, 1922. REPOSITORY: UC = presumably UCMP.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoidea, other taxa may be present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, somewhat antiquated nomenclature, with species-level identifications.
Metadata
Database number:86860
Authorizer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner, J. Marcot Enterer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-21 22:18:31 Last modified:2021-06-27 16:40:05
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-21 22:18:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64742. E. L. Packard. 1922. New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 13(10):413-462 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

29214 T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
58802 L. R. Saul. 1998. Eight Aporrhaid gastropod species from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and clarification of the type species of Perissoptera. The Nautilus 111(4):119-142 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]