Where: Fresno County, California (36.2° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 95.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neodesmoceras catarinae ammonoid zone, Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Moreno Fm of the Asuncion Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relations are unknown. AGE: Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From higher beds within the group, which overlies carbonaceous shales.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Church
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Church, Hanna, and Anderson. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
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 83774: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.08.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella aff. peninsularis Anderson and Hanna 1935 turret shell | |
Tessarolax aff. distorta Gabb 1864 snail | |
"Cophocara stantoni" = Perissitys stantoni
"Cophocara stantoni" = Perissitys stantoni Stewart 1927 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) epigonum" = Epigoniceras epigonum, "Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) birkhauseri" = Gaudryceras kayei, "Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) coalingense" = Gaudryceras kayei
"Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) epigonum" = Epigoniceras epigonum Kossmat 1895 ammonite
"Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) birkhauseri" = Gaudryceras kayei Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) coalingense" = Gaudryceras kayei Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
"Hauericeras aff. gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni
"Hauericeras aff. gardeni" = Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni Baily 1855 ammonite | |
"Parapachydiscus catarinae" = Neodesmoceras catarinae, "Parapachydiscus coalingensis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni, "Parapachydiscus aff. peninsularis" = Anapachydiscus peninsularis
"Parapachydiscus catarinae" = Neodesmoceras catarinae Anderson and Hanna 1935 ammonite
"Parapachydiscus coalingensis" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Parapachydiscus aff. peninsularis" = Anapachydiscus peninsularis Anderson and Hanna 1935 ammonite | |
"Exiteloceras aff. vancouverense" = Didymoceras vancouverensis, Nostoceras sp.
"Exiteloceras aff. vancouverense" = Didymoceras vancouverensis Gabb 1864 ammonite
Nostoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Baculites aff. anceps Lamarck 1822 ammonite
Baculites lomaensis Anderson 1958 ammonite
Baculites occidentalis Meek 1861 ammonite | |
Nautilidae indet. de Blainville 1825 nautiloid | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi Anderson and Hanna 1935 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam |