Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Paskenta Group, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• "beneath a thick bed of conglomerate which seems to mark the base of the Horsetown group" so Paskenta Group?
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1938. Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper 16:1-331 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 216136: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 07.12.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Lytoceras aulaeum Anderson 1938 ammonite |