UCMP D-181, Bayha (Permian of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 42.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: McCloud Limestone Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• Bayha section, 415 feet (126.4 meters) above base. Fusulinid zone F.

Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous limestone and limestone

• Clear, shallow, warm marine water with full access to the open sea.
• Lithologic information from stratigraphic section in Fig. 2. Thickness recorded for this section include sills of quartz diorite.

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Cerioid tabulate corals, cerioid rugose 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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62689: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 25.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Roemeriidae
Bayhaium merriamorum
Bayhaium merriamorum Langenheim and McCutcheon 1959 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Kleopatrinidae
"Bassius mccloudensis n. gen. n. sp." = Kleopatrina mccloudensis
"Bassius mccloudensis n. gen. n. sp." = Kleopatrina mccloudensis Wilson 1982 horn coral