Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 71.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ogo Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. A. Murphy
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 1997. Review of bivalve genus Plicatula from Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic strata of California and Baja California. Journal of Paleontology 71(2):287-298 [P. Holroyd/S. Tremblay/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194152: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 14.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula variata Gabb 1864 scallop |