CAS 29666, Del Puerto Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as AB31

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.5° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 90.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Bennison; 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 185396: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.04.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Tessarolax incrustata2 Anderson and Hanna 1935 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Didymoceras fresnoense n. sp." = Didymoceras vancouverensis1
"Didymoceras fresnoense n. sp." = Didymoceras vancouverensis1 Gabb 1864 ammonite