LACM (CIT) 328: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, California
collected by C. Stock 1939
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plesiotylosaurus crassidens
Camp 1942
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Workman Ford 2006 | 1 individual | |||||
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= Plesiotylosaurus crassidens n. gen., n. sp.
Camp 1942
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Camp 1942 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Fresno |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 120.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.4° North, 96.6° 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: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Great Valley | Formation: | Moreno | Member: | Marca |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| 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: | CIT,LACM | ||
| Collectors: | C. Stock | Collection dates: | 1939 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 76738 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Marcot | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-30 08:09:52 | Last modified: | 2021-10-13 09:45:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-30 08:09:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52135. | C. Stock. 1939. Occurrence of Cretaceous reptiles in the Moreno Shale of the southern coast ranges, California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25(12):617-620 [M. Carrano/A. Murch] |
Secondary references:
| 71196 | C. L. Camp. 1942. California mosasaurs. Memoirs of the University of California 13(1):1-68 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] |