Where: Marin County, California (37.9° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 81.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)
• Assemblage MH-7: The probable range of this assemblage is late Albian to early Cenomanian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: B. Murchey. 1984. Biostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of chert in the Franciscan complex, Marin Headlands, California. Franciscan Geology of Northern California Field Trip Guidebook 43, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section 51-70 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185266: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Novixitus mclaughlini radiolarian | |
Thanarla veneta Squinabol 1903 radiolarian
Dictyomitra "sp. A" Zittel 1876 radiolarian | |
Holocryptocanium barbui Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian |