Smith's Cove, Atractities 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)
• Atractities 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 153314: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Reptilia | |
"Shastasaurus osmonti" = Shastasaurus pacificus, Shastasaurus alexandrae
"Shastasaurus osmonti" = Shastasaurus pacificus Merriam 1895 ichthyosaur
Shastasaurus alexandrae Merriam 1902 ichthyosaur |