Also known as LACMIP Loc. 24671
Where: Contra Costa County, California (37.9° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 97.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deer Valley Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. P. Popenoe in 1962; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: L. R. Saul. 1989. California Late Cretaceous donaciform bivalves. The Veliger 32(2):188-208 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210582: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Adelodonax altus Gabb 1864 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Atira inornata Gabb 1864 snail |