Asuncion Group - Helltown, Butte (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Bedded 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

• Representative, but not exhaustive list.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
"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
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissitys brevirostris Gabb 1864 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
"Oligoptycha obliqua" = Biplica obliqua
"Oligoptycha obliqua" = Biplica obliqua Gabb 1864 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida Gabb 1864 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora gabbiana Anderson 1902 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Trigonia evansana" = Pterotrigonia evansana
"Trigonia evansana" = Pterotrigonia evansana Meek 1864 clam
 Trigoniida - Steinmanellidae
"Trigonia leana" = Yaadia leana
"Trigonia leana" = Yaadia leana Gabb 1900 clam