Where: Merced County, California (37.0° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 92.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Str. position: Pebbly calcareous sandstone

•Fossils: Paehydiseus cf. ootacodensis (STOCLICZKA), Diplomoceras ( ?) sp.

•Age: Lower Maestrichtian or highest Campanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Allan Bennison; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.07.2014, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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