ammonites
CAS 31097 - Dy Creek, Tehama (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CAS 31097

Where: Tehama County, California (40.3° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 85.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pacheco Group, Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Collection from lower part of section along Dry Creek, Tehama County. Turonian in age, probably lowermost.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Appears to be derived from shale according to stratigraphic section figured.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Unknown collector and identifier. Collections likely to be reposited in CAS

Primary reference: F.M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44208: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004

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