Where: Yolo County, California (38.6° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 86.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Funks Formation (Asuncion Group), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• Collected from limestone lentils. Funk Shale comprises lentils of limestone at frequent intervals with its lower part. The shale has a thickness of 1640 ft or more, and is underlain by a thick succession of sandstone and shale, probably referable to the Turonian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
• Reposited in CAS collections.
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44214: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi Anderson and Hanna 1935 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Anisomyon meeki Gabb 1864 pulmonate | |
Bivalvia | |
"Acila demessa" = Acila (Truncacila) demessa
"Acila demessa" = Acila (Truncacila) demessa Finlay 1927 divaricate nutclam | |
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Inoceramus aff. whitneyi Gabb 1869 clam | |
"Pecten (Camptonectes) cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus
"Pecten (Camptonectes) cf. curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
"Pecten (Propeamuseum) cowperi" = Propeamussium (Parvamussium) cowperi
"Pecten (Propeamuseum) cowperi" = Propeamussium (Parvamussium) cowperi Waring 1917 mud scallop | |
"Exogyra parasitica" = Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica
"Exogyra parasitica" = Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica Gabb 1864 oyster |