UCLA loc. 2845, North Fork of Cottonwood Creek area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 22845

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoplites gardneri 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; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. A. Murphy in 1951 - 1953; reposited in the CAS, 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 216350: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.12.2020, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Zuercherella zuercheri Jacob et al. 1906 ammonite
as "Puzosia sp. A" and as "Puzosia sp. B"