USNM 18137. Side of major hill. Silurian clasts (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Siskyou County, California (41.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 66.9° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kangaroo Creek Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Clasts of Ludlow age given other indicators

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified conglomerate and limestone

• Roundstone polymicitic conglomerate 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 69245: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Siskiyouspira vostokovae n. gen. n. sp., ? Euomphalopterus sp.
Siskiyouspira vostokovae n. gen. n. sp. Rohr 1980 snail
? Euomphalopterus sp. Roemer 1876 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Euryzone petilitornata" = Bicarina petilitornata
"Euryzone petilitornata" = Bicarina petilitornata Linsley 1968 snail