CAS 465, Texas Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: California (40.5° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 84.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Budden Canyon Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Anderson (1958) said Lower Cenomanian, but Matsumoto (1960) says Turonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158089: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.07.2014, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Terebratella densleonis" = Cyclothyris densleonis
"Terebratella densleonis" = Cyclothyris densleonis Anderson 1902
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites fontinalis Anderson 1938 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) texanum n. sp. Anderson 1958 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Collignoniceras woollgari Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
"Sonneratia aff. stantoni" = Tetrahoplitoides stantoni
"Sonneratia aff. stantoni" = Tetrahoplitoides stantoni Anderson 1902 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras haydeni Gabb 1864 ammonite