UCMP D-803, McCloud Bridge East (Permian of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 43.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: B Member (McCloud Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Float collection made an estimated 700 feet (213.4 meters) stratigraphically above D-801. Fusulinid zone B.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black limestone

• Clear, shallow, warm marine water with full access to the open sea.
• black limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (float), peel or thin section,

• Large solitary rugose corals, cerioid rugose corals, syringgoporid corals.

Primary reference: E. C. Wilson. 1982. Wolfcampian rugose and tabulate corals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) from the Lower Permian McCloud Limestone of northern California. Contributions in Science, National History Museum of Los Angeles County 337:1-90 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62663: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 25.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Neomultithecopora sandoi n. sp. Wilson 1982 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Petalaxis allisonae n. sp. Wilson 1982 horn coral