CAS 32900, Maymens Flat (M-5) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Santa Cruz County, California (37.1° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.L. Marier; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: W. P. Elder and J. W. Miller. 1993. Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-503:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 185369: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam