North Bank of Gres Canyon Locality UCMP D-6356 ( of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 110.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laguna Seca Formation, Tertiary (66.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, conglomeratic sandstone

• Brown to buff sandstone, conglomeritic in places.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. T. Smith. 1975. Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California. Paleogene Symposium & Selected Technical Papers: Conference on Future Energy Horizons of the Pacific Coast 464-483 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11123: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.07.2001

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea mathewsonii Gabb 1864 clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
"Tornatellaea pinguis" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis
"Tornatellaea pinguis" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis Gabb 1864 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Brachysphingus sinuatus Gabb 1869 true whelk