CAS 29669, Mustang Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Merced County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 87.3° W)

• 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 siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Bennison; 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 185732: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite