ammonites
CAS Loc. 1467/1467A - Capay (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Yolo County, California (38.7° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 91.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Upper Campanian, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, calcareous siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but probably siliciclastic; limy nodules. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Rambke; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Rambke. REPOSITORY: CAS.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86819: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.02.2009

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