Where: Yolo County, California (38.7° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 86.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sites Formation (Asuncion Group), Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 86.3 Ma)
• Str. position: Uppermost part of Sites formation ( ?)
•Fossils: Scaphites sp. ( cf. yokoyamai JIMBO), Otoscaphites cf. puereulus (JIMBO), bituberculate pachydiscid ammonite (Pseudojacobites or Menuites indet.), InĀoceramus sp. (group of I. lamarcki-cordiformis)
•Age: Turonian or Coniacian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. M. Kirby and T. H. Crook in 1933; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225448: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 09.05.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Pachydiscidae indet. Spath 1922 ammonite "bituberculate pachydiscid ammonite (Pseudojacobites or Menuites indet.)"
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"Otoscaphites cf. puerculus" = Yezoites puerculus, "Scaphites cf. yokoyamai" = Yezoites puerculus
"Otoscaphites cf. puerculus" = Yezoites puerculus Jimbo 1894 ammonite
"Scaphites cf. yokoyamai" = Yezoites puerculus Jimbo 1894 ammonite |