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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Atractites philippii" = Metabelemnites philippii
"Atractites philippii" = Metabelemnites philippii Hyatt and Smith 1905 belemnite |