Where: Contra Costa County, California (37.9° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 97.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moreno Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "The horizon of the present species is Maestrichtian."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 225034: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.04.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Meretrix" marshana n. sp.
"Meretrix" marshana n. sp. Anderson 1958 venus clam |