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UCMP 2098

Fresno County, California
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About UCMP 2098

UCMP 2098 is a fossil collection site in Fresno, California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Jacalitos Formation, dated to the Early Pliocene (5.333–3.6 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marginal marine indet. Documented finds include Forreria magister.

Geologic setting

Formation
Jacalitos
Geologic interval
Early Pliocene
Age
5.333–3.6 Ma
Depositional environment
marginal marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Geology notes

The beds of coal, the coarseness of the sandstones and conglomerates, the variation of the lithology within short distances, and the character of the molluscan fauna may be taken as indicative of deposition under shallow water conditions. The occurrence of quantities of gypsum at some localities, if it can be proved to be interstratified with the clastic rocks, may indicate that in part the beds are terrestrial or that the basin of deposition was nearly isolated from the sea.

Locality notes

University of California locality 2098, NW 1/4 sec. 24, T. 21S, R.14E, M. D. B. & M.

Fossils found here

Forreria magister
Gastropoda · Muricidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 206372 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at UCMP 2098?

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What minerals are found at UCMP 2098?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.