Also known as UCLA loc. 2896
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; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. A. Murphy in 1951-1953; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: M. A. Murphy. 1956. Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 40(9):2098-2119 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194156: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 14.06.2018, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pinna pontica Anderson 1938 oyster | |
Plicatula variata Gabb 1864 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Potamides diadema Gabb 1864 horn snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Lytoceras aulaeum Anderson 1938 ammonite |