Section 1, NSF 973, Stanley Mountain, California: Callovian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum aff. elegans Wu 1988
common category
Archaeospongoprunum imlayi Pessagno 1977
rare category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella aranae
rare category
Angulobracchia jasperensis
rare category
Angulobracchia informal sp. C Baumgartner 1980
rare category
Angulobracchia purisimaensis (Pessagno 1977)
rare category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Gorgansium pulchrum (Kocher 1981)
common category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma sp. Pessagno 1973
common category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Lanubus sp. Pessagno and Yang 1989
common category
Hexasphaera baumgartneri
rare category
Levileugeo ordinarius Yang and Wang 1990
rare category
recombined as Leugeo ordinarius
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Emiluviidae
Emiluvia hopsoni Pessagno 1977
rare category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Bolenidae
Bolenidae indet. Hull 1997
rare category
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Crucella theokaftensis Baumgartner 1980
common category
Tetraditryma aff. praeplena Baumgartner 1984
common category
Higumastra boucoti
rare category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Archaeodictyomitra inornata
abundant category
Archaeodictyomitra oleadita
abundant category
Archaeodictyomitra rigida Pessagno 1977
rare category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Unumidae
Unuma gorda Hull 1997
common category
corrected as Unuma gordus
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Hsuidae
Hsuum cf. brevicostatum (Ozvoldova 1975)
common category
Parahsuum stanleyense
abundant category
[entered as Parahsuum stanleyensis]
Parahsuum cf. simplum Yao 1982
abundant category
Parahsuum aff. simplum Yao 1982
common category
? Combusta publica Hull 1997
common category
recombined as Parahsuum publicum
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Williriedellum carpathicum Dumitrica 1970
common category
Striatojaponicapsa plicarum
rare category
original and current combination Striatojaponocapsa
s. str.
? Zhamoidellum exquisita
common category
Zhamoidellum triangulosa
rare category
? Complexapora cf. kozuri
rare category
synonym of Zhamoidellum
Praewilliriedellum cephalospinosum Kozur 1984
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Xitidae
Xitus singularis Hull 1997
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Obeliscoitidae
Olanda olorina
abundant category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Guexella sp. Baumgartner 1984
rare category
written as Guxella sp.
Pseudoeucyrtis firmus
abundant category
? Stichomitra takanoensis Aita 1987
rare category
group
Protozoa - Nassellaria
Canelonus conus Hull 1997
rare category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiellidae
Eucyrtidiellum takemurai
abundant category
Eucyrtidiellum ptyctum (Riedel and Sanfilippo 1974)
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae
Kilinora catenarum
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Spongocapsula hooveri
common category
Spongocapsula palmerae Pessagno 1977
common category
Obesacapsula sp. Pessagno 1977
common category
Obesacapsula morroensis Pessagno 1977
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Podobursa rosea
rare category
Podobursa tamanensis
rare category
Podobursa helvetica (Rüst 1885)
common category
Podobursa triacantha (Fischli 1916)
abundant category
Podobursa spinosa (Ozvoldova 1975)
abundant category
group
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
? Praeparvicingula aff. discors (Yang 1993)
Hull 1995 abundant category
? Ristola bala
Hull 1995 abundant category
Pseudoristola clava
abundant category
Pseudoristola nova
abundant category
Mirifusus sp. Pessagno 1977
Hull 1995 rare category
Mirifusus mediodilatatus (Rüst 1885)
Hull 1995 common category
Mirifusus guadalupensis Pessagno 1977
Hull 1995 abundant category
Mirifusus fragilis Baumgartner 1984
Hull 1995 rare category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
Palinandromeda podbielensis (Ozvoldova 1979)
common category
Palinandromeda fimbria Hull 1997
common category
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Tripedurnulidae
Turanta flexa
rare category
Turanta sp. Pessagno and Blome 1982
common category
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Tripocyclia spp.
Pessagno et al. 1989 common category
Triactoma spp.
Pessagno et al. 1989 common category
Archaeocenosphaera spp.
Pessagno et al. 1989 common category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California
Coordinates: 35.1° North, 120.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.7° North, 61.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Volcanopelagic Succession Formation:Unit 1
Local section:Section 1 Local bed:45.6 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Zone 2 beta - revision of chronostratigraphic assignment based on Baumgarnter et al. (1995) and Kiessling et al. (1999)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: Dark gray micritic limestone bed
Environment:basinal (siliceous) Tectonic setting:deep ocean basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original silica
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,hydrochloric,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Radiolarians only
Metadata
Database number:50738
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, J. Pálfy Enterer:W. Kiessling, A. Kocsis
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2005-05-20 01:14:29 Last modified:2005-05-20 04:30:30
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-20 01:14:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13552. D. M. Hull. 1997. Upper Jurassic Tethyan and Southern Boreal radiolarians from western North America. Micropaleontology 43(S2):1-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13556 D. M. Hull. 1995. Morphologic diversity and paleogeographic signficance of the family Parvicingulidae (Radiolaria). Micropaleontology 41:1-48 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
41432 E. Pessagno, W. M. Six, and Q. Yang. 1989. The Xiphostylidae Haeckel and Parvivaccidae, n. fam, (Radiolaria) from the North American Jurassic. Micropaleontology 35(3):193-255 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]