Silver Creek 2, UCMP V5607: Maastrichtian, California
collected by S. P. Welles 1956

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Plotosaurus tuckeri (Camp 1942)
1 specimen
UCMP 45299
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
Disassociated 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:S. P. Welles Collection dates:1956
Metadata
Also known as:SPW110
Database number:76739
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-30 08:14:15 Last modified:2021-10-13 09:54:39
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-30 08:14:15
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]