Also known as CAS Loc. 463

Where: Fresno County, California (36.2° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 96.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ragged Valley Shale Formation (Asuncion Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Str. position: No record; should be somewhere in "Ragged Valley shale formation", possibly slightly lower than another 2362

•Fossils: Pachydiscus cf. ootacodensis ( STOLICZKA), Tetragonites popetensis YABE, Didymoceras hornbyense (WHITEAVES), D. vancouverense ( GABB), Baculites occi­dentalis MEEK, Inoceramus cf. subundatus MEEK

•Age: Upper Campanian

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•Early Maastrichtian per Popenoe and Saul 1972

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Church in 1931; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Church, Hanna, and Huett, 1931. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences.

•Coll.: Several persons; different dates

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto. 1960. Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Series D, Geology, Special Volume II 1-204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86821: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.02.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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