UCLA loc. 2842, North Fork of Cottonwood Creek area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 22842

Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mortoniceras hulenanum ammonoid zone, Chickabilly Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 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 216400: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmophyllites sp. Spath 1829 ammonite
Desmoceras sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae