UCMP loc. A-9753, Wildcat Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.8° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 90.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Str. position: "Pachydiscus silt"; the cut bank consists of about 60 feet of silty sands with occasional thin sandy beds. This locality falls in the relatively upper part, but not highest part, of Panoche group in M. B. PAYNE's map (1951, pl.1).

•Age: UpPer Senonian (probably UpPer Campanian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty sandstone

• the cut bank consists of about 60 feet of silty sands with occasional thin sandy beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paleo. 137 in 1953; 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 225928: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 08.06.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
? Anapachydiscus cf. californicus