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Area 7: Deer Valley and Martinez, Contra Costa County, California, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 37.9167,-121.833 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on nearby landmark |
Given Location | California, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Contra Costa County, California, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Area 7: Deer Valley and Martinez, Contra Costa | Popenoe W. P., Saul L. R. (1987) | Great Valley | near or at the top of the Great Valley Series | "siliciclastic" | 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Perissitys sp. genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinellidae : Perissitys | 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Popenoe W. P., Saul L. R. (1987) Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys, Contributions in Science 380, 1-37 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!