CASG 67779 North Folk Cottonwood Creek area (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula variata Gabb 1864 scallop