Also known as WYQH F93
Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.3° N, 121.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 85.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Adobe Flat Shale Member (Panoche Formation), Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Yerington in 1949; 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 185463: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953 pearl oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hyphantoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite |