Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° 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)
• Zone of Tropites subbullatus, Trachyceras subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 142610: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pleurotropites gabbi Smith 1927 ceratite |