ammonites
CIT Loc. 1017 - Chico Creek [Chico Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Butte County, California (39.7° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 86.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chico Formation, Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chico Fm, for which no lithostratigraphic relationships are discussed. AGE: Santonian in text; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Sandstone layer cropping out about 100 ft below lava-Cretaceous contact; lower part of Chico Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Popenoe & Scharf in 1931

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Popenoe and Scharf, 1931. REPOSITORY: California Institute of Technology (at the time).

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86781: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009

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