UCLA loc. 6342, West side San Joaquin Valley (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 26342

Where: Merced County, California (37.0° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 96.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quinto B Member (Panoche Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper Panoche Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. P. Popenoe, L. R. Saul, and T. Susuki. 1987. Gyrodiform gastropods from the Pacific coast Cretaceous and Paleocene. Journal of Paleontology 61(1):70-100 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177888: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes (Sohlella) expansus Gabb 1864 moon snail