CIT Loc. 1195 - Stinking Creek [Member I] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 10778; UCLA loc. 4416; LACMIP loc. 24416

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bellavista Sandstone Member (Redding Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit; Member I. AGE: Turonian in text (middle); on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Not stated in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous layer in cross-bedded sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Popenoe & Ahlroth in 1936; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Popenoe and Ahlroth, 1936. REPOSITORY: California Institute of Technology (at the time).

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86785: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes multiple taxa reported in several publications; exhaustive for Ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publications, but comprising variable nomenclatural quality and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum Anderson 1902 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Biplica isoplicata1 Popenoe 1957 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Acteonella oviformis" = Actaeonella oviformis1, Acteonella frazierensis1
"Acteonella oviformis" = Actaeonella oviformis1 Gabb 1869 snail
Acteonella frazierensis1 Anderson 1958 snail
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Liocium punctatum1 Gabb 1869 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Glauconia robusta" = Turritella robusta1
"Glauconia robusta" = Turritella robusta1 Gabb 1864 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli1 White 1889 moon snail
Natica conradiana2 Gabb 1864 moon snail
type locality of subspecies vacculae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Gymnarus manubriatus1 Gabb 1864 snail
"Anchura condoniana" = Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana1 Anderson 1902 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Drilluta jacksonensis5 Anderson 1958 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis1
"Volutoderma mitraeformis" = Carota mitraeformis1 Gabb 1869 volute
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
"Garramites sp." = Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)1
"Garramites sp." = Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)1 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Nerita salsa1 Saul and Squires 1997 snail
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia klamathonia1 Anderson 1958 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Nelltia salsa n. sp.3
Nelltia salsa n. sp.3 Saul 1973 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana n. sp.4 Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Willimactra putida1 Saul 1973 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Calva regina" = Calva (Calva) regina1
"Calva regina" = Calva (Calva) regina1 Popenoe 1937 venus clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea malleiformis1 Gabb 1864 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida1
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida1 Gabb 1864 clam