Where: Merced County, California (37.0° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 95.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Garzas Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• in the Garzas member of the Moreno formation, as nearly as can be determined.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Paleo. 103 Class in 1948; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220358: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 22.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Baculites columna" = Trachybaculites columna, "Baculites aff. teres" = Fresvillia teres
"Baculites columna" = Trachybaculites columna Morton 1834 ammonite
"Baculites aff. teres" = Fresvillia teres Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bulbificopsis garza Squires and Saul 2003 fig shell |