Where: Shasta County, California (41.3° N, 122.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 18.3° N, 46.3° W (Wright 2013)
• 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Volsella sp. Scopoli 1777 mussel | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Plicatula perimbricata Gabb 1870 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella" richardsoni Smith 1927 | |
Spondylospira parmata Hoover 1983 |