Southwest slope of Panoche Hills: Turonian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium (Protocardium) translucidum
Gabb 1869
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| recombined as Protocardia translucida | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Leda translucida
Gabb 1864
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| recombined as Lembulus translucida | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Acteon politus
(Gabb 1869)
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Tornatellaea impressa
(Gabb 1864)
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella aff. petersoni
Merriam 1941
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Fresno |
| Coordinates: | 36.6° North, 120.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 83.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Pacheco | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Reworked block of sandstone in a basal conglomerate of Early Asuncion age. Turonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Sandstone. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Collected by Taff and Cross. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Not exhaustive, but likely to be representative. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 44196 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-09-04 22:24:09 | Last modified: | 2017-04-22 16:40:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-09-04 22:24:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11610. | F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham] |