Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 50.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pit Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Pit shale, about 200 feet below the Hosselkus Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 144374: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2013, edited by Catherine Powers and Bethany Allen

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