CAS G loc. 66648, east of the Kleinsorg chromite mine, South fork of Elder Creek (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (40.0° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Elder Creek group of the Knoxville ..., about 4000 feet above its base

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• dark shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. M. Anderson and R. L. Rist in 1937?; 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225615: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites sp.
Belemnites sp. Lamarck 1799 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Kossmatia kleinsorgensis n. sp.
Kossmatia kleinsorgensis n. sp. Anderson 1945 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella "n. sp. A"" = Buchia
"Aucella "n. sp. A"" = Buchia Rouillier 1845 scallop