Also known as Reef 47
Where: California (40.8° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 50.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hosselkus Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Late Carnian
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33354: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 28.07.2003, edited by Mihaela Krause and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polychaeta | |
Filograna sp.1 Oken 1815 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spiriferina pittensis" = Costispiriferina pittensis
"Spiriferina pittensis" = Costispiriferina pittensis Smith 1927 | |
Conodonta | |
"Metapolygnathus polygnathiformis" = Paragondolella polygnathiformis1 Budurov and Stefanov 1965 conodont | |
Conodontophorida | |
Anthozoa | |
""Astrocoenia" shastensis" = Minasteria shastensis Smith 1927 stony coral | |
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Florideophyceae | |
"Parachaetetes" sp.1 Deninger 1906 | |
Quadralella | |
Quadralella carpathica | |
Quadralella carpathica1 Mock 1979 |