USGS Mesozoic loc. M2024, Middle Fork of Elder Creek (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (40.0° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buchia piochii other zone, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Tithonian. About 2,100 ft below top of Buchia piochii zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; massive sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. H. Bailey in 1963; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay and D. L. Jones. 1970. Ammonites from the Buchia zones in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 647-B:B1-B59 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225862: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 06.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
? Groebericeras baileyi n. sp. Imlay and Jones 1970 ammonite