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Angus Canyon

Yolo County, California
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Based on our latest records, with claims updated from the BLM on Oct 9, 2026. Land and claims can change quickly, so check before you go.

Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About Angus Canyon

Angus Canyon is a fossil collection site in Yolo, California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal. Documented finds include Cupressinoxylon, Perissitys.

Geologic setting

Geologic interval
Late Cretaceous
Age
100.5–66 Ma
Depositional environment
lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Recorded occurrences
2
Geology notes

All of this points to an environment unlike that in which the wood of the Carboniferous coal balls was calcified - a restricted, anaerobic, lagoon or flood-plain environment.

Locality notes

In June 1952, N. L. Taliaferro, R. Taylor, and I found fragments of wood and gastropod shells in a sandstone boulder 600 feet above sea level in Angus Canyon, a tributary to Capay Valley, about 40 miles west-northwest of Sacramento, Calif

Fossils found here

Cupressinoxylon
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Perissitys
Gastropoda · Perissityidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 229008 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at Angus Canyon?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Angus Canyon?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.