Also known as CAS loc. 28455 (Anderson, 1958, p. 355)
Where: Stanislaus County, California (36.0° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 96.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mustang Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Mustang Shale of the Moreno Fm, Asuncion Gp, which is overlain by the Quinto Silt Mbr. AGE: Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Mustang Shale, among higher beds within the group.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow, calcareous mudstone and gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Bennison; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Bennison. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences.
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 83789: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.09.2008, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Pachydiscus cf. egertoni" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni
"Pachydiscus cf. egertoni" = Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Exicrioceras diabloense n. sp., "Turrilites excelsus n. sp." = Nostoceras excelsus
Exicrioceras diabloense n. sp. Anderson 1958 ammonite
"Turrilites excelsus n. sp." = Nostoceras excelsus Anderson 1958 ammonite | |
Diplomoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Solenoceras sp. Conrad 1860 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Acila (Truncacila) aff. demessa Finlay 1927 divaricate nutclam | |
Inoceramus sp., "Inoceramus aff. regularis" = Endocostea regularis, Inoceramus (Endocostea) stanislausensis n. sp.
"Inoceramus aff. regularis" = Endocostea regularis d'Orbigny 1845 clam
Inoceramus (Endocostea) stanislausensis n. sp. Anderson 1958 clam |