D-5729 - South-facing roadcut: Late/Upper Mississippian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Phillipsiidae
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Paladin bairdensis
(Wheeler 1937)
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Watkins 1973 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rugosochonetidae
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Rugosochonetes californicus
Watkins 1974
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1 individual | |||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Linoproductidae
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Fluctuaria sp.
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
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Stenoscismatoidea indet.
Oehlert 1887
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Watkins 1973 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
"stenoscismatacean" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
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? Nuculanoidea indet.
Adams and Adams 1858
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Watkins 1973 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
"nuculanacea (?)" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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Bakevellia informal sp. B
King 1848
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Parallelodon sp.
Meek and Worthen 1866
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pterioida
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Kabyaipecten informal leisingi Watkins MS
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Watkins 1973 | 11 individuals | ||||||||
Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
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Modiomorphoidea indet.
(Miller 1877)
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
"modiomorphacean" | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
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? Pleurotomarioidea indet.
(Swainson 1840)
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
"pleuritomariacea(?) sp. B" | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Trepospira sp.
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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Watkins 1973 | 10 individuals | ||||||||
Cephalopoda
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Nautiloidea indet.
Agassiz 1847
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
"nautiloid cephalopod sp. B" | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Crinozoa indet.
Matsumoto 1929
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Watkins 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Shasta |
Coordinates: | 40.9° North, 122.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 7.2° North, 48.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Mississippian |
Stage: | Serpukhovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Mississippian | ||
Age range of interval: | 326.40000 - 318.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Baird |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black lithified silty mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Black stilty mudstone. | |
Environment: | offshore |
Geology comments: Black stilty mudstone which may represent deposition in very deep water or high stress chemical conditions. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
Database number: | 143610 | ||
Authorizer: | N. Bonuso, J. Marcot | Enterer: | P. Monarrez, J. Marcot |
Created: | 2013-04-25 09:06:49 | Last modified: | 2013-04-24 18:06:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-25 09:06:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46424. | R. Watkins. 1974. Carboniferous Brachiopods from Northern California. Journal of Paleontology 48(2):304-325 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez] |
Secondary references:
17057 | R. Watkins. 1973. Carboniferous Faunal Associations and Stratigraphy, Shasta County, Northern California. AAPG Bulletin 57(9):1743-1764 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |