Where: California (41.9° N, 123.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 68.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Galice Member (Josephine Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Zone 2 gamma. Age re-assigned based on Baumgartner et al. (1995) and estimated from position in section. Informal Formation name.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified lime mudstone and lithified chert
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original silica
Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric,
Primary reference: E. A. Pessagno, Jr., C. D. Blome, D. M. Hull and W. M. Six. 1993. Jurassic radiolaria from the Josephine ophiolite and overlying strata, Smith River subterrane (Klamath Mountains), northwestern California and southwestern Oreg. Micropaleontology 39:93-166 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51661: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 09.06.2005, edited by Adam Kocsis
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
"Neotripocyclia sp." = Suna Wu 1986 radiolarian
"Neotripocyclia harperi" = Suna harperi Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
Xiphostylus spp. Haeckel 1881 radiolarian | |
"Praeparvicingula siskiyouensis" = Praeparvicingula, "Praeparvicingula sp." = Praeparvicingula, "Praecaneta sp." = Praeparvicingula, "Praeparvicingula deadhorsensis" = Parvicingula deadhorsensis
"Praeparvicingula siskiyouensis" = Praeparvicingula radiolarian
"Praeparvicingula sp." = Praeparvicingula Pessagno et al. 1993 radiolarian
"Praecaneta sp." = Praeparvicingula Pessagno et al. 1993 radiolarian
"Praeparvicingula deadhorsensis" = Parvicingula deadhorsensis Pessagno et al. 1993 radiolarian | |
Gorgansium sp. Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian | |
Emiluvia sp. Foreman 1973 radiolarian |