UCLA Loc. 3633 - Chico Creek [Chico Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 23633

Where: Butte County, California (39.9° N, 121.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 86.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chico Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chico Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Campanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Saul & Saul in 1952; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.E. & R.B. Saul. REPOSITORY: UCLA (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 86954: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, but comprising somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though with species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
"Polyptychoceras cf. obstrictum" = Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum
"Polyptychoceras cf. obstrictum" = Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum Jimbo 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. capensis Woods 1906 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Gaudryceras cf. denmanense" = Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denmanense
"Gaudryceras cf. denmanense" = Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denmanense Whiteaves 1903 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes (Sohlella) banites n. sp.2 Popenoe et al. 1987 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissitys elaphia1 Popenoe and Saul 1987 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutoderma querna4 Saul and Squires 2008 volute
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Adelodonax tectus3 Saul 1989 clam
 Cardiida - Mesodesmatidae
Califadesma elafium3 Saul 1989 clam