Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 53.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hosselkus Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• From the Hosselkus Limstone according to the UCMP database. Could be early Norian, but the other fish remains come from the "Tropites limestone" of late Carnian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. S. Jordan. 1907. The fossil fishes of California, with supplementary notes on other species of extinct fishes. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(7):95-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188587: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.09.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Nectosaurus sp. Merriam 1905 diapsid | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Xenesthes velox n. gen. n. sp." = Birgeria velox
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