CAS 27853, Mustang Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Merced County, California (37.2° N, 121.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 90.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.A. Taff in 1934; 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 185755: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.05.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
? Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. chicoensis Trask 1856 ammonite