Also known as Sun Ray Gypsum mine, 2475 feet S. 68 degrees of the mine buildings, 22 miles west of Mendota
Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 96.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bulimina obtusa foram zone, Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "about 520 feet above the contact with the Panoche sandstone."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, gray, blue shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. P. Welles, Tucker, Pavia in 1937
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1943. Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. Memoirs of the University of California 13:125-254 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 108392: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 29.04.2011, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
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Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria monile2, Nodosaria pomuligera2, Nodosaria spinifera2, Nodosaria sp.2, Nodosaria spp.2, Dentalina legumen2, Frondicularia cf. undulosa2, Robulus sp.2, Robulus inornatus2
Nodosaria sp.2 Lamarck 1812
Nodosaria spp.2 Lamarck 1812
Dentalina legumen2 Reuss 1845
Robulus sp.2 Montfort 1808
Robulus inornatus2 d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Nodosarella sp.2 Rzehak 1895 | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
"Marginulina elongata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)2
"Marginulina elongata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
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Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae n. gen. n. sp.2
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Actinopteri | |
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