CAS Loc. 28180, Dry Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (40.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pacheco Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Lowermost collection in section along Dry Creek, Tehama County. Turonian in age, probably lowermost in text; revised to Albian (A. Hendy, 5/2009).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy shale

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Appears to be derived from sandy shale according to stratigraphic section figured.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Unknown collector and identifier. Collections likely to be reposited in CAS

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44206: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Not exhaustive, but likely to be representative.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Pervinquieria furberi n. sp.
Pervinquieria furberi n. sp. Anderson 1958 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmoceras voyi
Desmoceras voyi Anderson 1902 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Parahoplites aff. sjogreni
Parahoplites aff. sjogreni Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Lytoceras whitneyi" = Anagaudryceras sacya
"Lytoceras whitneyi" = Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite