CAS 27855, Crow Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.4° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 86.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Strata probably correlative to the Chico Formation. From upper beds in this section, which have a Santonian fauna. Middle Campanian Panoche Formation in Elder & Miller, 1993

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• No lithologic data reported. Probably sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Taff, Hanna and Cross.

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 44273: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Representative, but not exhaustive list.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
"Canadoceras aff. subtililobatum" = Anapachydiscus subtililobatum
"Canadoceras aff. subtililobatum" = Anapachydiscus subtililobatum Jimbo 1894 ammonite
Possible re-id as Pachydiscus cf. buckhami in Elder & Miller 1993
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites aff. chicoensis Trask 1856 ammonite
Possible re-id as Baculites cf. rex in Elder & Miller 1993
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus cf. angulatus clam
Possible re-id as Inoceramus cf. subundatus in Elder & Miller 1993