Where: Fresno County, California (36.2° N, 120.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 69.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gravelly Flat Formation (Great Valley Group), Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
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 151979: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 27.10.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Paskentana paskentaensis Stanton 1895 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Modiola major" = Modiolus major
"Modiola major" = Modiolus major Gabb 1869 mussel | |
Buchia crassicollis Keyserling 1846 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Peregrinella whitneyi Gabb 1866 |