Fiddler Creek, a mile above its mouth (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras aulaeum Anderson 1938 ammonite