Section 2, SM-11A, Stanley Mountain, California (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: California (35.1° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 64.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 2 Formation (Volcanopelagic Succession Group), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Zone 3 alpha - revision of chronostratigraphic assignment based on Baumgarnter et al. (1995) and Kiessling et al. (1999)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone

• Reddish-brown siliceous mudstones

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Radiolarians only

Primary reference: D. M. Hull. 1997. Upper Jurassic Tethyan and Southern Boreal radiolarians from western North America. Micropaleontology 43(S2):1-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50742: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Mirifusus baileyi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
? Stichomitra takanoensis Aita 1987 radiolarian
group
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtiidae
"Minocapsa horokanaiensis" = Tetracapsa horokanaiensis
"Minocapsa horokanaiensis" = Tetracapsa horokanaiensis Kawabata 1988 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
"Complexapora kiesslingi" = Zhamoidellum, Minocapsa aitai, "Praezhamoidellum frequens" = Williriedellum frequens
"Complexapora kiesslingi" = Zhamoidellum radiolarian
Minocapsa aitai radiolarian
"Praezhamoidellum frequens" = Williriedellum frequens Tan Sin Hok 1927 radiolarian