USGS Mesozoic locality M949 and CIT locality 1086 (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 59.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bedford Canyon Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N. J. Silberling, N. E. Schoellhamer, and C. H. Gray; reposited in the USNM

• Stanford University collections

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1963. Jurassic Fossils from Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 37(1):97-107 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163046: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 09.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Silberlingia sanctaeanae
Silberlingia sanctaeanae Smith 1914 clam
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi
"Posidonia ornati" = Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Partschiceras cf. grantzi, ? Holcophylloceras sp.
Partschiceras cf. grantzi Imlay 1953 ammonite
? Holcophylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras (? Sublunuloceras) sp.
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Macrocephalites sp.
Macrocephalites sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
? Lytoceras sp.
? Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite