Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 84.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Middle-Late Turonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate
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 185502: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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? Biplica sp. Popenoe 1957 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Meekia (Mygallia) ? takeoana Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam
Meekia (Meekia) ? lirata Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam | |
|
Calva sp. Popenoe 1937 venus clam | |
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Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869 clam
Cymbophora cf. gabbiana Anderson 1902 clam | |
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? Trigoniidae indet. Lamarck 1819 clam | |