UCLA 7168, Crow Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as F 53

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.4° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 87.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Coniacian?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.B. Stewart in 1944; 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 185418: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
? Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam