CAS no number, Marysville Buttes (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Sutter County, California (39.2° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 89.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Str. position: No formational name;

•Fossil: Baculites cf. inornatus MEEK

•Age: Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lenticular, pebbly, gray, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone and brown sandstone

• "Grey pebbly calcareous sandstone lenses in dull brown shelly sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Coll.: No record

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225371: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. inornatus Meek 1862 ammonite