Where: Yolo County, California (39.5° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 84.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pacheco Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• A horizon about 2,100 ft above the base of the Pacheco Group; probably slightly higher than Putah Creek collections. Turonian in age, probably lower Turonian in age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by Kennett.
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44199: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida Gabb 1864 venus clam | |
Trigonarca aff. excavata Packard 1922 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gyrodes expansa Gabb 1864 moon snail |