Alkalai Gulch (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.4° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 78.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chickabilly Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. Lehmann and M. A. Murphy. 2001. A new placenticeratid ammonite from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of California and the inferred history of some placenticeratid and engonoceratid ammonites. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie Monatshefte 2001(6):343-358 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225509: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 13.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Gastroplites cf. canadensis Whiteaves 1893 ammonite