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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Stromatomorpha californica n. sp.
Stromatomorpha californica n. sp. Smith 1927 demosponge |