Where: Shasta County, California (40.7° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 84.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Redding Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Originally reported as Chico Formation, but probably Redding Redding
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E.S. Gohre
Primary reference: J. F. Parham, R. P. Hilton, and E. S. Gohre. 2003. The oldest turtle from California and other new records of Late Cretaceous sea turtles from the Chico Formation. PaleoBios 23(1):24-28 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 137836: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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