Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.4° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 84.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Adobe Flat Shale Member (Panoche Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Middle-Late Turonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.V. Ingersoll in 1982; reposited in the LACM
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 185409: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Subprionocyclus sp. ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella hearni Merriam 1941 turret shell | |
Cantharus cf. occidentalis Gabb 1869 true whelk | |
"Arrhoges cf. californicus" = Latiala californica
"Arrhoges cf. californicus" = Latiala californica Gabb 1864 snail | |
? Biplica sp. Popenoe 1957 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Linearia cf. multicostata Gabb 1869 tellin clam | |
Meekia (Mygallia) aff. takeoana Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam | |
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam | |
? Pseudoptera sp. Meek 1873 oyster | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam |