Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 53.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hosselkus Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• Upper Triassic, Tropites beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1905; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: E. M. Wemple. 1906. New Cestraciont teeth from the west-American Triassic. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(4):71-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136682: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2012, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Toretocnemus californicus n. gen. n. sp.2
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Chondrichthyes | |
Acrodus wempliae n. sp.1
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Hybodus shastensis n. sp.
Hybodus shastensis n. sp. Wemple 1906 elasmobranch |