UCLA loc. 2874, East Fork of Huling Creek (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 22874

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Leconteites lecontei ammonoid zone, Chickabilly Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 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 216368: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras californicum" = Euphylloceras californicum, "Phylloceras theresae" = Phyllopachyceras theresae
"Phylloceras californicum" = Euphylloceras californicum Anderson 1938 ammonite
"Phylloceras theresae" = Phyllopachyceras theresae Anderson 1938 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
"Diptychoceras laeve" = Ptychoceras laeve
"Diptychoceras laeve" = Ptychoceras laeve Gabb 1869 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Leconteites lecontei Anderson 1902 ammonite
questionable occurrence
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Tetragonites cf. timotheanum" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) timotheanus, "Gabbioceras gainesi" = Eotetragonites gainesi, "Gaudryceras aurarium" = Anagaudryceras aurarium
"Tetragonites cf. timotheanum" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) timotheanus Pictet 1847 ammonite
"Gabbioceras gainesi" = Eotetragonites gainesi Anderson 1938 ammonite
"Gaudryceras aurarium" = Anagaudryceras aurarium Anderson 1938 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes onensis2 Popenoe et al. 1987 moon snail
"probably this species"
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Biplica michaeli n. sp.1 Popenoe 1957 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Parallelodon brewerianus" = Nanonavis breweriana
"Parallelodon brewerianus" = Nanonavis breweriana Gabb 1864 clam
misspelled as "Parallelodon breweriana"