USNM 18125. 40 m NE of quartz diorite dike, southeast slope near top of ridge (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Siskyou County, California (41.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 74.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kangaroo Creek Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Clasts of Ashgillian age given other indicators

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified conglomerate and limestone

• Carbonate with limestone clasts

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr. 1980. Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 171:141-199 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69225: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
"Gyronema liljevalli n. sp." = Trochonema liljevalli
"Gyronema liljevalli n. sp." = Trochonema liljevalli Rohr 1980 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Murchisonia (Murchisonia) callahanensis" = Ectomaria callahanensis, "Loxoplocus (Lophospira) perangulata" = Lophospira perangulata
"Murchisonia (Murchisonia) callahanensis" = Ectomaria callahanensis Rohr 1980 snail
"Loxoplocus (Lophospira) perangulata" = Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira modesta Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Liospira helena" = Paraliospira helena Billings 1860 snail
Paraliospira mundula Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma griffinorum n. sp. Rohr 1980 snail
"Helicotoma olsoni n. sp." = Palaeomphalus olsoni Rohr 1980 snail
Boucotspira fimbriata Rohr 1980 snail
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea elizabethi n. sp. Rohr 1980 snail
? Pachystrophia cf. devexa d'Eichwald 1859 snail