Cheney 1 well, 5800 feet depth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.7° N, 81.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• Foraminifers listes but omitted (old names, unknown age)

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36860: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum fresnoense n. sp. Durham 1943 stony coral