Also known as SC 1612, SC 1613, SC 1614, UCMP V98117, UCMP V94002

Where: Butte County, California (39.6° N, 121.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 90.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chico Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• interpreted as early Campanian based on Baculites species (Parham and Stidham, 1999)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Göhre, D.H. Steward and R.P. Hilton

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137837: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.12.2012, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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