CIT Loc. 1198, Stinking Creek, Redding Area (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 10879; LACMIP loc. 10777

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Soft buff earthy sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe & C. Ahlroth in 21, 1936; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• 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 86788: 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.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea malleiformis1 Gabb 1864 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida1
"Cucullaea gravida" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida1 Gabb 1864 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Anchura condoniana" = Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana1 Anderson 1902 snail
Gymnarus manubriatus1 Gabb 1864 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Mylecoma vacca3 Squires and Saul 2003 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli1
"Gyrodes dowelli" = Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli1 White 1889 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella hearni1 Merriam 1941 turret shell