Where: California (40.8° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 42.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: F Member (McCloud Formation), Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)
• About 1545 feet above base of McCloud limestone at this locality, and about 100 feet below base of very thick dike near top of McCloud Limestone section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: microfossils
Collected by Skinner, Wilde
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Repository: not stated, presumably Humble Oil Company
Primary reference: J. W. Skinner and G. L. Wilde. 1965. Permian biostratigraphy and fusulinid faunas of the Shasta Lake area, northern California. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Protozoa 6:1-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.06.2012
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