UCMP A3990, Putah Creek: Ypresian, California
collected by T. H. Crook and J. M. Kirby

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Hickman 1976
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Yolo
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 122.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 94.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Capay Member:Vacaville Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:submarine fan
Geology comments: Capay Formation is an exposure of a submarine canyon and base of slope deposit, deposited at bathyal depths (deeper than 1000 meters) by a variety of mechanisms.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collectors:T. H. Crook and J. M. Kirby
Metadata
Database number:180421
Authorizer:M. Clapham, J. Marcot Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-16 11:11:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-16 11:11:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
59868. A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

66207 C.S. Hickman. 1976. Pleurotomaria (Archaeogastropoda) in the Eocene of the northeastern Pacific: a review of Cenozoic biogeography and ecology of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 50(6):1090-1102 [P. Holroyd/E. Orzechowski/E. Orzechowski]