UCLA loc. 3000, Mitchell Creek area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 23000

Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gabbioceras wintunium ammonoid zone, Chickabilly Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Upper Chickabilly Member of the Budden Canyon Formation

•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 216309: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium operculiformis" = Syncyclonema operculiformis
"Entolium operculiformis" = Syncyclonema operculiformis Gabb 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea grandicosta" = Neithea (Neithea) grandicosta
"Neithea grandicosta" = Neithea (Neithea) grandicosta Gabb 1869 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Acroteuthis onoensis Anderson 1938 belemnite
misspelled as "Acroteuthis onoense"