Where: Contra Costa County, California (38.0° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 98.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Great Valley Series. Late Maastrichtian.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.C. Merriam; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: L. R. Saul and W. P. Popenoe. 1992. Pacific Slope Cretaceous bivalves of the genus Calva. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum 433:1-68 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219052: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 15.03.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Calva (Calva) varians Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
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