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Gyrodiform gastropods from the Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Paleocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

W. P. Popenoe ,
L. R. Saul  and
Takeo Susuki
W. P. Popenoe
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
L. R. Saul
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
Takeo Susuki
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Abstract

Seven previously described and seven new taxa of gyrodiform naticoids from West Coast Late Cretaceous–Paleocene age strata are discussed. Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli White of Turonian age is a typical Gyrodes; G. robustus Waring from the Paleocene has the shape of Gyrodes s.s. but lacks the crenulations. G. greeni Murphy and Rodda, G. yolensis n. sp., G. quercus n. sp., G. banites n. sp., G. canadensis Whiteaves, G. pacificus n. sp., and G. expansus Gabb comprise the new subgenus Sohlella, which thus ranges from Cenomanian through Maastrichtian. Gyrodes robsauli n. sp. resembles “Polinices” (Hypterita) helicoides (Gray), and Hypterita is reassigned to the Gyrodinae as a subgenus of Gyrodes. Gyrodes onensis n. sp. of Albian age is similar to the G. americanus group of Sohl (1960). Three texa—Natica allisoni (Murphy and Rodda) of Cenomanian age and N. conradiana Gabb and N. conradiana vacculae n. subsp. of Turonian age—which have all been previously considered to be Gyrodes are placed in Natica. Well marked relict color patterns on N. conradiana and N. conradiana vacculae suggest that these naticids from northern California and southern British Columbia were tropical forms.

Diversity of taxa and size of specimens are reduced at the end of the Turonian, suggesting a change in West Coast marine conditions at that time.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 70 - 100
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