Also known as Letterbox Canyon

Where: California (33.1° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 87.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Point Loma Formation (Rosario Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• base of CC 22 = 75.5 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, blue mudstone and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Riney in 1985

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• collected by Brad Riney (listed as 1988 in Reynolds 1994)

Primary reference: W. P. Coombs, Jr. and T. A. Deméré. 1996. A Late Cretaceous nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from marine sediments of coastal California. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):311-326 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60806: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.05.2006, edited by Pete Wagner and Jonathan Marcot

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