UCLA 6522, Whitney Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 50.0° N, 85.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)

• 535' above base.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Schilling in 1959; 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 185633: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia "n. sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 jingle
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail