Brock ranch, mouth of Brock Creek (coral zone) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hosselkus Formation, Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.P. Smith; 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 144391: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2013, edited by Catherine Powers

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Stromatomorpha californica n. sp. Smith 1927 demosponge