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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Neomultithecopora sandoi n. sp.
Neomultithecopora sandoi n. sp. Wilson 1982 tabulate coral | |
Petalaxis allisonae n. sp.
Petalaxis allisonae n. sp. Wilson 1982 horn coral |