Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.3° N, 81.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, sandy shale
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 185731: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam |