CIT Loc. 1041 - Butte Creek [Chico Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 10835

Where: Butte County, California (39.8° N, 121.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 90.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chico Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chico Fm, for which no lithostratigraphic relationships are discussed. AGE: Early Campanian in text; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Not stated in text.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but apparently siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. 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 86786: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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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 - Collignoniceratidae
"Butticeras buttense n. gen. n. sp." = Submortoniceras buttense1, "Butticeras studleyi" = Submortoniceras studleyi1
"Butticeras buttense n. gen. n. sp." = Submortoniceras buttense1 Anderson 1958 ammonite
"Butticeras studleyi" = Submortoniceras studleyi1 Anderson 1958 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes (Sohlella) canadensis2 Whiteaves 1903 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Meekia (Mygallia) bella4 Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam