UCMP loc. A-7581, Avenal Canyon (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Solano County, California (35.9° N, 120.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 89.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Str. position: Limy concretions weathered from clay shale, 200 feet interval below contact with McClure shale

•Age: Campanian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, calcareous claystone

• Limy concretions weathered from clay shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paleo. 137 in 1951; reposited in the UCMP

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225927: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 08.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. inornatus Meek 1862 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Neophylloceras ramosum" = Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum
"Neophylloceras ramosum" = Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum Meek 1857 ammonite