Where: Plumas County, California (40.1° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 56.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brock Shale Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)
• Probably Sevatian based on co-occurrence of Rhabdoceras suessi and Monotis, but possibly Alaunian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.H. Brewer, C.R. King in 1863
Primary reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Triassic fossils of California and the adjacent territories. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:19-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33365: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 28.07.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Avicula mucronata n. sp.
Avicula mucronata n. sp. Gabb 1864 clam | |
"Pecten" deformis n. sp.
"Pecten" deformis n. sp. Gabb 1864 scallop | |
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop | |
"? Halobia dubia" = Daonella dubia
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"Myophoria alta" = Guineana alta
"Myophoria alta" = Guineana alta Gabb 1864 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Halorites americanus n. sp." = Gnomohalorites americanus
"Halorites americanus n. sp." = Gnomohalorites americanus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite |