Where: Tehama County, California (40.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pacheco Group, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Collection from lower part of section along Dry Creek, Tehama County. Turonian in age, probably lowermost.
•"The age of the locality has been established as early Cenomanian by the presence of turrilitid, mantellicerid, and baculitid ammonites (Murphy and Rodda, 1996)."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Unknown collector and identifier. Collections likely to be reposited in CAS
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44208: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Neophylloceras seresitensis" = Phylloceras seresitense2
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"Cyrtochilus stylus n. sp." = Sciponoceras gracile
"Cyrtochilus stylus n. sp." = Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
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"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) aff. jacksonense" = Tetragonites glabrus
"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) aff. jacksonense" = Tetragonites glabrus Jimbo 1910 ammonite | |
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