Also known as BX-46-2
Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 47.2° N, 88.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Laguna Seca or Tesla Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B.F. Cox in 1991; reposited in the USGS
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 185637: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam | |
? Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
? Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816 lantern shells | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Mytilidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail |