Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Redding Formation (Pacheco Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Collection from lowest fossil bearing horizon, about 60 ft thick, beneath which are conglomerates. Middle Turonian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

• Collected by Taff, Hanna and Cross. Unknown identifier. Collections likely to reposited at 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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44217: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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