Also known as 88-E-2
Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.1° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 91.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Age is poorly constrained but indicative of Late Campanian. Taxa have type locality near at Texas Flat, near Folsom, which belongs to Upper Campanian based on Baculites inornatus and B. occidentalis. Spondylus subnodosus has its type locality in the Santa Ana Mountains in Upper Campanian Metaplacenticeras pacificum zone. Baculitids found are only known from Late Campanian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.P. Elder in 1988; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. P. Elder. 1991. An unusual Late Cretaceous fauna from an oyster-rich interval in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1934:E1-E18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167698: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Entobia sp. Bronn 1838 demosponge | |
Anthozoa | |
"Astrangiidae indet." = Rhizangiidae
"Astrangiidae indet." = Rhizangiidae d'Orbigny 1851 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily | |
Malacostraca | |
? Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cheilostomata indet. Busk 1859 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pectinida indet. Gray 1854 scallop | |
Spondylus subnodosus Packard 1922 scallop
Lyriochlamys traskii Gabb 1864 scallop | |
Lima "sp. A" Bruguière 1797 file clam
Acesta "sp. A" Adams and Adams 1858 file clam | |
Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica Gabb 1864 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |
Inoceramus (Endocostea) aff. cymbaeformis Pergament 1975 clam | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) anae Smith 1945 clam | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
"? Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"? Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Cox 1937 clam | |
Yaadia sp. Crickmay 1930 clam | |
Cymbophora aff. popenoei Saul 1974 clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassatella aff. conradiana Gabb 1864 clam | |
Rogerella sp. Saint-Seine 1951 |