ammonites
CIT Loc. 1195 - Stinking Creek [Member I] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 85.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit; Member I. AGE: Turonian in text (middle); on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Not stated in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous layer in cross-bedded sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Popenoe & Ahlroth in 1936

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Popenoe and Ahlroth, 1936. 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 86785: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2009

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