Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ogo Member (Budden Canyon Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• The Ogo Member is correlated with the Hauterivian based on the occurrence of ammonoids such as Simbirskites lecontei and Hertleinites aguila (Murphy, 1956).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Iba, S. Sano, and K. Tanabe. 2011. A Tethyan bivalve, Neithea (Cretaceous pectinid) from northern California, and its biogeographic implications. Paleontological Research 15(2):79-84 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115300: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 31.08.2011

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