Budden Canyon Formation
| Budden Canyon Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Turonian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Great Valley Group |
| Sub-units | Bald Hills, Chickabolly, Gas Point, Huling Sandstone & Ogo Members |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Mudstone, sandstone |
| Other | Conglomerate, limestone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 40°24′N 122°30′W / 40.4°N 122.5°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 40°30′N 78°30′W / 40.5°N 78.5°W |
| Region | California |
| Country |  United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Budden Canyon |
  Budden Canyon Formation (the United States)  Budden Canyon Formation (California) | |
The Budden Canyon Formation is the name of a sedimentary rock formation in California of Cretaceous (Berriasian-Turonian) age.[1]
The formation consists of more than 20,000 feet of clastic sediments of non-marine (alluvial fan), shallow marine, slope and basin floor fan turbidites.[2]
Fossil content
[edit]The formation is very fossiliferous with common macro-fossils, such as ammonites, gastropods, and bivalves found both in concretions and bedding planes, along with common petrified wood, woody material, and leaf and seed fossils. In addition to these are marine microfossils, including foraminifera and microgastropods. There are also rare vertebrate remains, including fish, pterosaurs, a dinosaur and marine turtles.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Murphy, M. A., Rodda, P. U., and Morton, D. M., 1969 "Geology of the Ono Quadrangle, Shasta and Tehema Counties California. California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 192, 28p.
- ^ Budden Canyon Formation in the Paleobiology Database
Bibliography
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
Further reading
[edit]- A. Kaim; R. G. Jenkins; K. Tanabe; S. Kiel (17 September 2014). "Mollusks from late Mesozoic seep deposits, chiefly in California". Zootaxa. 3861 (5): 401–440. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3861.5.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25283419. Wikidata Q29462714.
- Y. Iba; S. Sano; K. Tanabe (June 2011). "A Tethyan Bivalve, Neithea (Cretaceous Pectinid) from Northern California, and Its Biogeographic Implications". Paleontological Research (in English and English). 15 (2): 62–67. doi:10.2517/1342-8144-15.2.062. ISSN 1342-8144. Wikidata Q105081981.
- R. L. Squires; L. R. Saul (2006). "Additions and refinements to Aptian to Santonian (Cretaceous) Turritella (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America". The Veliger. 48 (1): 46–60. hdl:10211.3/170999. ISSN 0042-3211. Wikidata Q105082111.
- S. Y. Smith; R. A. Stockey (May 2001). "A New Species of Pityostrobus from the Lower Cretaceous of California and Its Bearing on the Evolution of Pinaceae". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 162 (3): 669–681. doi:10.1086/320131. ISSN 1058-5893. Wikidata Q60484611.
- R. A. Stockey and S. Y. Smith. 2000. A new species of Millerocaulis (Osmundaceae) from the Lower Cretaceous of California. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161(1):159-166
- R. P. Hilton, E. S. Göhre, P. G. Embree and T. A. Stidham. 1999. California's first fossil evidence of Cretaceous winged vertebrates. California Geology 52(4):4-10
- L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 1998. New Cretaceous Gastropoda from California. Palaeontology 41(3):461-488
- R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 1997. Review of bivalve genus Plicatula from Cretaceous and Lower Cenozoic strata of California and Baja California. 71(2):287-298
- R. P. Hilton, F. L. DeCourten, and P. G. Embree. 1995. First California dinosaur north of Sacramento. California Geology 48(4):99-102
- D. J. Long, M. A. Murphy, and P. U. Rodda. 1993. A New World occurrence of Notidanodon lanceolatus (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchidae) and comments on hexanchid shark evolution. Journal of Paleontology 67(4):655-659
- P. U. Rodda, M. A. Murphy, and C. Schuchman. 1993. The nautilid Eucymatoceras (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in the Lower Cretaceous of northern California. The Veliger 36:265-269
- L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285
- 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
- M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda. 1960. Mollusca of the Cretaceous Bald Hills Formation of California. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):835-858
Categories:
- Geologic formations of California
- Lower Cretaceous Series of North America
- Upper Cretaceous Series of North America
- Cretaceous California
- Berriasian Stage
- Valanginian Stage
- Hauterivian Stage
- Barremian Stage
- Aptian Stage
- Albian Stage
- Cenomanian Stage
- Turonian Stage
- Mudstone formations
- Sandstone formations of the United States
- Alluvial deposits
- Deltaic deposits
- Shallow marine deposits
- Turbidite deposits
- Paleontology in California