Southwest slope of Panoche Hills (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.6° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 83.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pacheco Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Reworked block of sandstone in a basal conglomerate of Early Asuncion age. Turonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collected by Taff and Cross.

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44196: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Not exhaustive, but likely to be representative.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium (Protocardium) translucidum" = Protocardia translucida
"Cardium (Protocardium) translucidum" = Protocardia translucida Gabb 1869 cockle
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda translucida" = Lembulus translucida
"Leda translucida" = Lembulus translucida Gabb 1864 pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteon politus, Tornatellaea impressa
Acteon politus Gabb 1869 snail
Tornatellaea impressa Gabb 1864 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella aff. petersoni
Turritella aff. petersoni Merriam 1941 turret shell