CAS 69111 - Bald Hills Mbr, Budden Canyon Fm: Cenomanian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella xylina n. sp. Squires and Saul 2006
38 specimens
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Paosia colusaensis (Anderson 1958)
Squires and Saul 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Shasta
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 122.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° North, 82.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Budden Canyon Member:Bald Hills
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Bald Hill Member of the Budden Canyon Formation. Further details published in Saul (1982) and Squires and Saul 2003, 2004). AGE: Cenomanian based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Lithology not stated, assumed to be siliciclastic based on figured specimens. LITHIFICATION: Assumed lithified based on figured specimens.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: In general regarded as shallow water, though some units includes assemblages displaced into deeper waters through turbidity currents. Here assigned to a siliciclastic offshore environment on the basis of lithology.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:CAS
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: P.U. Rodda (1955 or 1956). REPOSITORY: CAS, California.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Only includes Turritella (Gastropoda), therefore very limited. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-level assignments.
Metadata
Database number:69622
Authorizer:A. Hendy, J. Marcot Enterer:A. Hendy, J. Marcot
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-28 08:04:22 Last modified:2022-12-22 12:18:23
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-28 08:04:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18617. R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2006. Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Veliger 48(1):46-60 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

76985 R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2004. The pseudomelaniid gastropod Paosia from the marine Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and a review of the age and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):484-500 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]