USGS loc. M7183, Little Indian Valley (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP loc. 36214

Where: Lake County, California (39.1° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• Franciscan Complex; Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian?), based on possible occurrence of Buchia keyserlingi.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rob J. McLaughlin

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 151970: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 27.10.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia ? keyserlingi Lahusen 1888 scallop
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
"Amberleya dilleri" = Ambercyclus dilleri
"Amberleya dilleri" = Ambercyclus dilleri Stanton 1895 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Paskentanidae
Paskentana globosa n. sp. Kiel et al. 2008 snail
Paskentana paskentaensis Stanton 1895 snail