D-5744 - Large ravine north of Gilman Road (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baird Formation, Late/Upper Mississippian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• Thin-bedded siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1974. Carboniferous Brachiopods from Northern California. Journal of Paleontology 48(2):304-325 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143624: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 25.04.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Blastozoa indet. Sprinkle 1973
"crinozoa spp."
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
"nautiloid cephalopod sp.A"
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Neilsonia sp. Thomas 1940 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Allorisma sp. King 1844 clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris "sp. A" George 1931
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostidae indet." = Dictyoclostinae
"Dictyoclostidae indet." = Dictyoclostinae Stehli 1954
"dictyoclostid sp. B"
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Karavankina sp. Ramovs 1966
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Fenestellida indet.
"fenestellid type 2"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladiidae indet. Zittel 1880
"acanthocladiid"
 Rhabdomesida -
Rhabdomesida indet. Vine 1883
"rhabdomesld"