CAS loc. 28603, Toms (=Thomes?) Creek, near Paskenta (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (39.9° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 69.5° W)

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• The example was found by the writer in the dark sandy shales of the Elder Creek group in the lower part of the Knoxville on Toms Creek, Tehama County, about 2000 feet stratigraphically above its base; Elder Creek Group is indicated as "Portlandian" in age (=Tithonian?)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale

• dark sandy shales

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1945. Knoxville series in the California Mesozoic. Geological Society America Bulletin 56(10):909-1014 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225606: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis californicus n. sp. Anderson 1945 belemnite