Where: Shasta County, California (41.3° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 57.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Devils Canyon Member (Modin Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Primary reference: A. F. Sanborn. 1960. Geology and Paleontology of the southwest quarter of the Big Bend Quadrangle, Shasta County, California. California Division of Mines, Special Report 63 18-26 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38328: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.04.2004, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
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Volsella sp. Scopoli 1777 mussel | |
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Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
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Plicatula perimbricata Gabb 1870 scallop | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
|
Spondylospira parmata Hoover 1983 | |
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"Rhynchonella" richardsoni Smith 1927 | |