C-15, Gray Rocks, Klamath Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: California (40.7° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 43.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: F Member (McCloud Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• About 50 feet below the McCloud-Nosoni Contact

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collected by Skinner, Wilde

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: not stated, presumably Humble Oil Company

Primary reference: J. W. Skinner and G. L. Wilde. 1965. Permian biostratigraphy and fusulinid faunas of the Shasta Lake area, northern California. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Protozoa 6:1-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128323: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Pseudofusulinella formosa Skinner and Wilde 1965
Pseudofusulinella rotunda Skinner and Wilde 1965
Pseudofusulinella retusa Skinner and Wilde 1965
 Fusulinoidea -
Klamathina elongata Skinner and Wilde 1965
Klamathina singularis n. sp. Skinner and Wilde 1965
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Schwagerina bayhaensis n. sp. Skinner and Wilde 1965
Cuniculinella calx Thompson and Wheeler 1946
Eoparafusulina contracta n. sp. Skinner and Wilde 1965
Eoparafusulina brevis Skinner and Wilde 1965