Also known as LACMIP loc. 10865

Where: Tehama County, California (40.2° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 86.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asuncion Group, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Small area of Chico beds brought to the surface by an anticline with steep dips to the northeast and southwest. I think this is correlated to the Forbes Shale of Petroleum and Cow Creeks.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected and initially described by Gabb (1864). This collection represents a partly emended and enlarged list by more recent collections.

Primary reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:57-217 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44232: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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