LSJU 1068, junction of Silver and Panoche Creek: Thanetian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Cophocara stantoni Stewart 1927
    = Perissitys stewarti Zinsmeister 1983
Popenoe and Saul 1987
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Pseudoperissolax blakei (Conrad 1855)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Tornatellaea cf. pinguis (Gabb 1864)
recombined as Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis
unclassified
Cnidaria indet. Hatschek 1888
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Fresno
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 120.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 101.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Thanetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Thanetian
Age range of interval:59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lodo
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:11126
Authorizer:A. Miller, J. Marcot Enterer:C. Ferguson, J. Marcot
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-07-19 11:08:11 Last modified:2017-04-22 16:54:14
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-19 11:08:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4090. 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]

Secondary references:

243791% 7220W. P. Popenoe and L. R. Saul. 1987. Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys. Contributions in Science 380:1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]