CAS 29646, Oat Gulch (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.3° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Probably Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 185455: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite