Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Redding Formation (Pacheco Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• A fourth fossiliferous horizon in Pacheco Group, about 500 ft above Roaring Rivers collection. Upper Turonian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by Bennison and Anderson. Unknown identifier.
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 44215: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Oregoniceras aff. knighteni" = Subprionocyclus neptuni, "Oregoniceras sp." = Subprionocyclus
"Oregoniceras aff. knighteni" = Subprionocyclus neptuni Geinitz 1849 ammonite
"Oregoniceras sp." = Subprionocyclus ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus jacksonensis n. sp.
Inoceramus jacksonensis n. sp. Anderson 1958 clam |