UCMP B-782, Garden Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as 29-71-1

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.5° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 86.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Maddock in 1952; 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 185381: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus (Platyceramus) cf. japonicus Nagao and Matsumoto 1940 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828 clam