ammonites
UCLA Loc. 3794 - Hooten Gulch [Member V] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 86.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit; Member V. AGE: Santonian in text; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Shales and interbedded sandstones below massive sandstone; near top of Member V.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Popenoe in 1936

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: W. P. Popenoe, 1936. REPOSITORY: UCLA (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 86934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2009

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