Where: Glenn County, California (39.7° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 71.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, gray mudstone and lithified, concretionary, gray limestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: E. Pessagno. 1977. Lower cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Great Valley sequence and Franciscan complex, California coast ranges. Cushman Foundation for foraminiferal research, Special Publication (15)1-87 [W. Kiessling/M. Riess/M. Riess]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54052: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Martin Riess on 22.09.2005

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