Also known as UCLA loc. 6346

Where: Stanislaus County, California (36.9° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian to Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Moreno Formation, Tierra Loma Shale Member. Age: Late early to early late Maastrichtian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. B. Stewart and W. P. Popenoe in 1944; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires. 2008. Cretaceous trichotropid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America: Possible pathways to calyptraeid morphology. The Nautilus 122(3):115-142 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176784: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.03.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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