CAS loc. 1351, West Berryessa (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CAS loc. 28493, CAS loc. 33529

Where: Napa County, California (38.6° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Great Valley Group, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. M. Anderson in 1928; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: S. K. Kiel, K. A. C. Campbell, W. P. Elder and C. T. S. Little. 2008. Jurassic and Cretaceous Gastropods from Hydrocarbon Seeps in Forearc Basin and Accretionary Prism Settings, California. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):679-703 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151975: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 27.10.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Paskentanidae
Paskentana paskentaensis Stanton 1895 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola major" = Modiolus major
"Modiola major" = Modiolus major Gabb 1869 mussel
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia cf. crassicollis Keyserling 1846 scallop
as ssp. "Buchia cf. crassicolis solida(?)"
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte trapezoidalis" = Oxyeurax trapezoidalis
"Astarte trapezoidalis" = Oxyeurax trapezoidalis Stanton 1895 clam