UCMP B-776, Long Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as 31-51-4F

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.4° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 85.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Adobe Flat Shale Member (Panoche Formation), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Coniacian?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

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 185416: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
? Peroniceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
? Hyphantoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite