CAS 33711, Maymens Flat (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Santa Clara County, California (37.1° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 91.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 185370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. anceps Lamarck 1822 ammonite
ssp. pacificus
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissityidae indet. Popenoe and Saul 1987 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia evansana Meek 1864 clam