CAS loc. 28609, Alder Springs road, 3.5 miles north of the Winslow bridge (Jurassic of the United States)
Where: Glenn County, California (39.7° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 69.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Paskenta Group, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• "upper part of the Newville group"
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dr. Gayle Scott; reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1945. Knoxville series in the California Mesozoic. Geological Society America Bulletin 56(10):909-1014 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 225610: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.05.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
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Cephalopoda | |
? Virgatosphinctes sp. Uhlig 1910 ammonite
Perisphinctes sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus scotti n. sp.
Inoceramus scotti n. sp. Anderson 1945 clam | |
Pectinida indet. Gray 1854 scallop as "Pecten (Syncyclonema) aff. concentricum Koch"; I found "Pecten concentricus" Koch and Dunker 1837, but this has since been synonymized with species from different superfamiliies (e.g., Johnson 1984)
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Aucella fischeri Pavlow 1907 scallop
"Aucella piochii" = Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop
"Aucella russiensis" = Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop |