Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Early Turonian" given for age, but ammonite is actually Late Cenomanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. M. Anderson, McCoy, and Bennison; reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: W. P. Elder and J. W. Miller. 1993. Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-503:1-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 185727: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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