Also known as LACMIP loc. 23625

Where: Butte County, California (39.9° N, 121.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 86.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Musty Buck Member (Chico Formation), Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chico Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Santonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Saul & Saul in 1952; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.E. & R.B. Saul. REPOSITORY: UCLA (at the time).

Primary reference: L. R. Saul. 1989. California Late Cretaceous donaciform bivalves. The Veliger 32(2):188-208 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207437: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.01.2020

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