Where: Butte County, California (39.8° N, 121.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 86.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chico Formation (Asuncion Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• No stratigraphic data reported. From the Santonian lower portion of the Chico Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Popenoe, Sharf, Bennison and 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 44275: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Mortoniceras (Submortoniceras) gabbi" = Submortoniceras chicoense, "Butticeras sp." = Submortoniceras, "Butticeras studleyi n. sp." = Submortoniceras studleyi
"Mortoniceras (Submortoniceras) gabbi" = Submortoniceras chicoense Trask 1856 ammonite
"Butticeras sp." = Submortoniceras Spath 1926 ammonite
"Butticeras studleyi n. sp." = Submortoniceras studleyi Anderson 1958 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Perissitys brevirostris Gabb 1864 snail | |
"Oligoptycha obliqua" = Biplica obliqua
"Oligoptycha obliqua" = Biplica obliqua Gabb 1864 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
Cymbophora gabbiana Anderson 1902 clam | |
"Trigonia evansana" = Pterotrigonia evansana
"Trigonia evansana" = Pterotrigonia evansana Meek 1864 clam | |
"Trigonia leana" = Yaadia leana
"Trigonia leana" = Yaadia leana Gabb 1900 clam |