Where: Plumas County, California (40.1° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 56.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brock Shale Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)
• Probably Sevatian based on co-occurrence of Rhabdoceras suessi and Monotis, but possibly Alaunian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.S. Diller, A. Hyatt in 1891; 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 142618: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Rhabdoceras russelli" = Rhabdoceras suessi
"Rhabdoceras russelli" = Rhabdoceras suessi Hauer 1860 ceratite |