Redding (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 84.8° W)

When: Redding Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Originally "Shasta (?) Formation", but "Chico formation. Upper Cretaceous" in Clark and Twitchell 1915. Probably Redding Formation.

•"Probably of Turonian Age" in Anderson 1958.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203437: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster californicus n. sp. Clark 1891 heart urchin