Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 90.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.A Taff in 1934; reposited in the CAS
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 185504: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus aff. subundatus Meek 1861 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite |