Where: California (40.8° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 53.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hosselkus Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• Upper Triassic, Tropites beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. S. Jordan. 1907. The fossil fishes of California, with supplementary notes on other species of extinct fishes. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(7):95-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2012, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Nectosaurus sp. Merriam 1905 diapsid
Nectosaurus halius Merriam 1905 diapsid | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Acrodus wempliae Jordan 1907 elasmobranch |