Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.5° N, 121.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 43.2° N, 79.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.L. Taliaferro in 1958; reposited in the UCMP
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 185379: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Calycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam |