Also known as BX-88-2C
Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 87.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B.F. Cox in 1991; reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: W. P. Elder and J. W. Miller. 1993. Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-503:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 185498: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
? Drilluta sp. Wade 1916 snail |