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)
• 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: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144079: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.04.2013, edited by Catherine Powers
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pleurotropites gabbi Smith 1927 ceratite |