Bear Mountain, 20 miles northeast of Redding (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 53.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hosselkus Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Zone of Tropites subbullatus, Juvavites 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 144376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2013, edited by Catherine Powers

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Aulacoceratida - Xiphoteuthididae
"Atractites philippii" = Metabelemnites philippii
"Atractites philippii" = Metabelemnites philippii Hyatt and Smith 1905 belemnite