Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.2° N, 121.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 92.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panoche Formation (Great Valley Group), Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• A bed of sandy shale with Santonian fauna.

•"Upper Panoche" in Matsumoto 1960.

•Campanian - Maastrichtian in Elder and Miller 1993

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Bennison; reposited in the 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 44272: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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