UCLA 10660, between Garzas Creek and Whitney Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

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: Garzas Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Type Garzas 195 ft above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Popenoe in 1941; 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 185508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callistalox cf. fragilis Gabb 1869 venus clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella cf. mercedensis Anderson 1958 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer sp. Récluz 1848 mussel
Xenomytilus fons n. gen. n. sp. Squires and Saul 2006 mussel
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Idonearca "n. sp. A"" = Cucullaea (Idonearca)
"Idonearca "n. sp. A"" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) Conrad 1862 clam