Asuncion Group - Richardson Ranch (shale), Siskiyou (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data reported
• 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

• Representative, but not exhaustive.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"? 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
"Kotoceras subsugatum" = Damesites sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite
n. name?
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Prionocycloceras crenulatum Anderson 1902 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) cala" = Saghalinites cala
"Lytoceras (Tetragonites) cala" = Saghalinites cala Forbes 1846 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutoderma blakei Saul and Squires 2008 volute
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus klamathensis Anderson 1902 clam