Where: Merced County, California (37.0° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 96.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quinto Silt Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Quinto Silt of the Moreno Fm, Asuncion Gp, which overlies the Mustang Shale Mbr and is overlain by the Garzas Sand. AGE: Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the the Quinto Silt.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collections, including Taff, Hanna, Cross, Bennison, McCoy and Anderson. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences.

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 83790: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.09.2008

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