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 | |
? Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites cf. chicoensis Trask 1856 ammonite |