Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 96.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Middle Maastrichtian
• 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 185491: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella chaneyi Merriam 1941 turret shell | |
Perissitys stantoni Stewart 1927 snail | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Septifer sp. Récluz 1848 mussel | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
cf. Aguileria sp. White 1887 oyster | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
"Idonearca "n. sp. A"" = Cucullaea (Idonearca)
"Idonearca "n. sp. A"" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) Conrad 1862 clam | |
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) aff. veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) aff. veatchii" = Glycymerita veatchii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Clisocolus dubius Gabb 1864 clam | |
? Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869 clam | |
Calva (Calva) varians Gabb 1864 venus clam
Callistalox fragilis Gabb 1869 venus clam | |
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
Meekia (Meekia) sella Gabb 1864 clam |