Where: Siskiyou County, California (41.9° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 88.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Asuncion Group, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• A correlative horizon of Coniacian, which is found as the same stratigraphic position as that at Henley "Assemblage was found near the base of the Senonian and about 350 ft above the upper Turonian."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected and identified by Anderson.
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 44271: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.09.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"? Desmophyllites siskiyouensis" = Desmophyllites diphylloides, "Kotoceras richardsoni n. sp." = Damesites sugata, "Kotoceras subsugatum" = Damesites sugata
"? Desmophyllites siskiyouensis" = Desmophyllites diphylloides Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Kotoceras richardsoni n. sp." = Damesites sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Prionocycloceras crenulatum Anderson 1902 ammonite | |
"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) cala" = Saghalinites cala
"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) cala" = Saghalinites cala Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Volutoderma blakei Saul and Squires 2008 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus klamathensis Anderson 1902 clam |