Black Star Canyon Inoceramus-Acila Paleocommunity (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Locality BS-1

Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 87.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holz Shale Member (Ladd Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• from "about 1 m of strata"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siltstone and lithified shale

• "in restricted marine water at shallow depths... perhaps the result of a lagoonal setting"

•the Holz Shale in general is "in a shallow marine setting, including prodelta, lagoonal and bay environments"

• "Brown to gray siltstone and shale with interbedded lenses of stringers of limestone, conglomerate, and sandstone"

•apparently well lithified because strata were "broken" and "disarticulated" during collection

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "selective collecting, by breaking the strata at the site"

•collections apparently are at the California State University at Fullerton

Primary reference: F. A. Sundberg. 1980. Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California. Journal of Paleontology 54(4):840-857 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80947: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
? Hemiaster sp.
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium sp.
Propeamussium sp. de Gregorio 1884 mud scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp.
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
"sp. B"
 Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla sp.
Eriphyla sp. Gabb 1864 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp.
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam