LSJU Loc. 1628, Los Gatos Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.2° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 89.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ragged Valley Shale Formation (Asuncion Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Str. position: lower 300 feet of 800 feet Ragged Valley shale

•Age: Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Siliciclastic marine setting.
• LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Muller and Reinhardt; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Coll.: MULLER & REINHARDT

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225377: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. inornatus
Baculites cf. inornatus Meek 1862 ammonite