Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.3° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 60.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)
• Franciscan pebble in Santa Clara Formation conglomerate
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, red chert
Size class: microfossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: E. V. Kohnen and B. L. Murchey. 1995. Age and origin of red chert pebbles in the lower part of the Santa Clara Formation, northern California. In E. M. Sangines, D. W. Andersen, A. B. Buising (eds.), Recent Geologic Studies in the San Francisco Bay Area 76:77-86 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 185423: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Angulobracchia sp. Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian |