Smith's Cove, Trachyceras Beds (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 54.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Hosselkus Formation, Triassic (251.9 - 201.4 Ma)
• Trachyceras Beds of the Hosselkus Limestone
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Z. Luo
• ChM VP (Charleston Museum Vertebrate Fossil Collection)
Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1908. Triassic Ichthyosauria. Memoirs of the University of California 1(1):1-155 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 149577: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joseph Villari on 11.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Reptilia | |
"Leptocheirus zitteli n. gen. n. sp." = Toretocnemus zitteli
"Leptocheirus zitteli n. gen. n. sp." = Toretocnemus zitteli Merriam 1903 ichthyosaur |