ammonites
Lowrey, NSF 831 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tehama County, California (40.0° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 78.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, green mudstone and lithified, concretionary, green limestone

• greenish-gray limestone nodules (calcilutite) in greenish-gray mudstones

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: E. Pessagno. 1977. Lower cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Great Valley sequence and Franciscan complex, California coast ranges. Cushman Foundation for foraminiferal research, Special Publication (15)1-87 [W. Kiessling/M. Riess/M. Riess] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54070: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Martin Riess on 22.09.2005