Where: Yolo County, California (39.3° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 85.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pacheco Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• From about the same zone as McCoy and Anderson collection. Second lowermost conglomerate in Pacheco Group, at the base of the Turonian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by Kennett.
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 44200: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gyrodes expansa Gabb 1864 moon snail | |
"Anchura californica" = Latiala californica
"Anchura californica" = Latiala californica Gabb 1864 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Durania aff. californica Anderson 1958 rudist | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam |