CAS 31098 - Dry Creek, Tehama (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CAS 31098

Where: Tehama County, California (40.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 82.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pacheco Group, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Collection from middle part of section along Dry Creek, Tehama County. Text states that the collection is Turonian in age, probably middle; revised to Cenomanian by A. Hendy (5/2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Unknown lithology.

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 44210: 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.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Cunningtoniceras aff. meridionale Stoliczka 1864 ammonite
Acanthoceras aff. rhotomagense Brongniart 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia (Parapuzosia) sp." = Parapuzosia
"Puzosia (Parapuzosia) sp." = Parapuzosia Nowak 1913 ammonite