Escarpado Canyon 2, UCMP V5609: Maastrichtian, California
collected by Sheldon 1956
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plotosaurus sp.
Camp 1951
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1 individual | |||||||||
UCMP 45302 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Fresno |
Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 120.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 96.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Great Valley | Formation: | Moreno | Member: | Tierra Loma Shale |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | UCMP | ||
Collectors: | Sheldon | Collection dates: | 1956 |
Metadata
Also known as: | SPW113 | ||
Database number: | 76736 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-11-30 07:42:31 | Last modified: | 2021-10-13 09:54:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-30 07:42:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
25965. | ETE | K. Workman Ford. 2006. Stratigraphic positions of marine reptile and dinosaur specimens in the Moreno Formation, in the Tumey Hills and Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:407-410 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Marcot] |