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)
• Collection from second fossil bearing horizon in section, about 450 ft higher in the section. Middle Turonian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Collected by Taff, Hanna and Cross. Unknown identifier. Collections likely to reposited at 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 44218: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pugnellus manubriatus" = Gymnarus manubriatus
"Pugnellus manubriatus" = Gymnarus manubriatus Gabb 1864 snail |