PBDB Collection

UCMP loc. B-5247, Willow Creek: Wenlock - Pridoli, California

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826	Stauffer 1930
	= Stromatoporoidea indet.	Merriam 1972
Anthozoa - Favositida

	Favosites informal sp. No. 4 Lamarck 1816	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	only one of Diller and Schuchert's (1894) probably one of Diller and Schuchert's (1894) "Favosites sp. No. 1, 2, 3 or 4" repeated by Stauffer, so presumably the latter did not reidentify this
	= Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937	Merriam 1972
	"favositids (massive)"

	Favosites ? basalticus (Goldfuss 1826)	Stauffer 1930
	probably one of Diller and Schuchert's (1894) "Favosites sp. No. 1, 2, or 3"
	= Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937	Merriam 1972
	"favositids (massive)"

	Favosites ? polymorpha (Goldfuss 1826)	Stauffer 1930
	probably one of Diller and Schuchert's (1894) "Favosites sp. No. 1, 2, or 3"
	= Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937	Merriam 1972
	"favositids (massive)"

	Favosites turbinata Billings 1859	Stauffer 1930
	probably one of Diller and Schuchert's (1894) "Favosites sp. No. 1, 2, or 3"
	= Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937	Merriam 1972
	"favositids (massive)"
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae

	Alveolites ? multilamella Meek 1877	Stauffer 1930
	= Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801	Merriam 1972
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae

	Cladopora ? labiosa (Billings 1859)	Stauffer 1930
	= Cladopora sp. Hall 1851	Merriam 1972
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Heliolitidae

	Heliolites porosa (Goldfuss 1826)	Stauffer 1930
	original and current combination Heliolites porosus
	from "Gazelle" so presumably this locality
Anthozoa - Stauriida

	Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924	Stauffer 1930
	= Stauriida indet. Verrill 1865	Merriam 1972
	"Zelophyllum or Cyathactis?"
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Endophyllidae

	Endophyllum informal n. sp.	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Klamathastraea dilleri Merriam 1972	Merriam 1972
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Acervulariidae

	Acervularia sp. Schweigger 1819	Diller and Schuchert 1894
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae

	Acervularia pentagona (Goldfuss 1826)	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Shastaphyllum schucherti Merriam 1972	Merriam 1972
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Entelophyllidae

	Diphyphyllum fasciculum Meek 1877	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Petrozium staufferi Merriam 1972	Merriam 1972
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae

	Trochurus sp. Beyrich 1845

	Dicranopeltis cf. decipiens Weller 1907
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

	Proetus sp. Steininger 1831
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

	Leonaspis (Acanthalomina) minuta (Barrande 1852)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae

	Scutellum sp. Pusch 1833
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

	Encrinurus (Cromus) beaumonti Barrande 1852
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

	Cheirurus cf. insignis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

	Leptaena rhomboidalis (Wahlenberg 1818)
	recombined as Leptaena (Leptaena) rhomboidalis
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida

	Gypidula cf. comis Hall and Clarke 1894	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Pentamerida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931	Merriam 1972
	"Gypidula or Barrandella n. sp."
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae

	Gypidula lotis	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Gypidula informal n. sp.	Merriam 1972
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Subrianidae

	? Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= Conchidium informal n. sp.	Merriam 1972
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae

	Atrypa reticularis (Linnaeus 1758)
	original and current combination Anomia reticularis
	as "Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus var. orbicularis Sowerby?"
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Septatrypidae

	? Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893	Stauffer 1930
	= ? Atrypella sp.	Merriam 1972
	synonym of Atrypoidea

	cf. Newberria sp.	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= ? Atrypella cf. tenuis Kirk and Amsden 1952	Merriam 1972

	Atrypella scheii Holtedahl 1914
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae

	Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= ? Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869	Merriam 1972
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae

	Loxonema cf. delphicola Hall 1860	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	= ? Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841	Merriam 1972
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

	Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841	Diller and Schuchert 1894
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida

	Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	"much like the Russian B. septentrionalis Tschernyschew, but may be a young specimen of B. perplexa Walcott."
	= Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897	Merriam 1972
	"bellerophontid"
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae

	Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832	Diller and Schuchert 1894
Crinoidea

	Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821	Diller and Schuchert 1894
	"large crinoid columns"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	California	County:	Siskiyou
Coordinates:	41.5° North, 122.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	6.2° South, 67.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text

Time

Period:	Silurian
10 m.y. bin:	Silurian 2
Key time interval:	Wenlock - Pridoli
Age range of interval:	433.40000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Gazelle

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	black,brown "shale"
Secondary lithology:	"limestone"
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "All the trilobites described in this paper were collected from brown-black shale interbeds in the thin-bedded basal portion of limestone..."
Environment:	marine indet.	Tectonic setting:	passive margin

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	UCMP

Metadata

Also known as:	3 miles southwest of Gazelle; probably locality 6 of Diller and Schuchert 1894 (see Churkin, Jr. and Langenheim, Jr. 1960)
Database number:	214346
Authorizer:	J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Marcot	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2020-09-25 15:32:15	Last modified:	2023-03-17 13:01:48
Access level:	the public	Released:	2020-09-25 15:32:15
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

73900.

M. Churkin, Jr. 1961. Silurian trilobites from the Klamath Mountains, California. Journal of Paleontology 35(1):168-175 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

84138		J. S. Diller and C. Schuchert. 1894. Discovery of Devonian rocks in California. American Journal of Science (series 3) 47(282):416-422 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
26807		C. W. Merriam. 1972. Silurian rugose corals of the Klamath Mountains region, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 738:1-50 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
83883		C. R. Stauffer. 1930. The Devonian of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(4):81-118 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]