Also known as Sun Ray Gypsum mine, 2475 feet S. 68 degrees of the mine buildings, 22 miles west of Mendota

Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 49.5° N, 84.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bulimina obtusa foram zone, Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)

• "about 520 feet above the contact with the Panoche sandstone."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, gray, blue shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. P. Welles, Tucker, Pavia in 1937

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1943. Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. Memoirs of the University of California 13:125-254 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 108392: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 29.04.2011, edited by Roger Benson

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