Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• From the "Chico, upper Cretaceous." The Chico Series was a name used for much of the Upper Cretaceous in California and southern Oregon, but has been subdivded and superseded by finer units. There are many other fossil localities in the area north of Bella Vista, and all belong to the Turonian Redding Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.D. Hanna, F.M. Anderson in 1928; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1929. New species of fossil decapod crustaceans from California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 19(21):469-472 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135775: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.11.2012

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