Pacheco Group - Alturas Highway, Frazier Corners (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• No lithologic data 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
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
"Oregoniceras aff. knighteni" = Subprionocyclus neptuni, "Oregoniceras sp." = Subprionocyclus
"Oregoniceras aff. knighteni" = Subprionocyclus neptuni Geinitz 1849 ammonite
"Oregoniceras sp." = Subprionocyclus ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus jacksonensis n. sp. Anderson 1958 clam