McCarty Creek, NSF 838 (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (39.9° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 69.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, gray mudstone and lithified, concretionary, gray limestone

• gray limestone (calcilutite) nodules in dark-gray mudstones

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: E. Pessagno. 1977. Lower cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Great Valley sequence and Franciscan complex, California coast ranges. Cushman Foundation for foraminiferal research, Special Publication (15)1-87 [W. Kiessling/M. Riess/M. Riess]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54030: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Martin Riess on 22.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Parvicingula sp., Parvicingula jonesi
Parvicingula sp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Parvicingula jonesi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma sp.
Orbiculiforma sp. Pessagno 1973 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella sp.
Paronaella sp. Pessagno 1971 radiolarian