Also known as LACMIP Loc. 23623
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: Musty Buck Member (Chico Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chico Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Santonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 86956: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mesopuzosia cf. densicostata Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
Hauericeras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite | |
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Baculites cf. yokoyamai Tokunga and Shimizu 1926 ammonite | |
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Bostrychoceras aff. otsukai Yabe 1904 ammonite | |
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