Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Redding Formation (Pacheco Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• 500 ft above position of middle Turonian collections on Little Cow Creek. Uppermost Turonian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Collected by Taff, Hanna and Cross. Unknown identifier. Collections likely to reposited at 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 44205: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Kotoceras frazierense" = Damesites sugata
"Kotoceras frazierense" = Damesites sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
"Phylloceras vaculae" = Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum
"Phylloceras vaculae" = Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum Meek 1857 ammonite |