Where: Yolo County, California (38.6° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 86.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Funks Formation (Asuncion Group), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Collected from limestone lentils. Funk Shale comprises lentils of limestone at frequent intervals with its lower part. The shale has a thickness of 1640 ft or more, and is underlain by a thick succession of sandstone and shale, probably referable to the Turonian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Reposited in CAS collections.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44214: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004

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