Pacheco Group - Thomson Creek, Yolo (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• No lithologic data reported.

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

• Not exhaustive, but likely to be representative.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida
"Trigonocallista nitida" = Calva (Egelicalva) nitida Gabb 1864 venus clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Trigonarca aff. excavata Packard 1922 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes expansa Gabb 1864 moon snail