Divide between Squaw Creek and Pit River, 2 miles NW of Brock's ranch (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 53.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hosselkus Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• About 150 feet above beds with Tropites subbullatus

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.W. Furlong; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142566: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
"Halorites (Homerites) semiglobosus" = Homerites semiglobosus
"Halorites (Homerites) semiglobosus" = Homerites semiglobosus Hauer 1855 ceratite