UCLA loc. 2976, North Fork of Cottonwood Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 22976

Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Shasticrioceras poniente ammonoid zone, Chickabilly Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• stages based on Fernando, et al., 2011

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216289: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonoidea - Megacrioceratidae
Shasticrioceras whitneyi Anderson 1938 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus ovatoides Anderson 1938 clam