Where: Fresno County, California (36.1° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 96.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ragged Valley Shale Formation (Asuncion Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Ragged Valley Shale, Asuncion Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relations are unknown. AGE: Early Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From below the Brown Mountain Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Hanna in 1930; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: G. D. Hanna, 1930. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86854: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.02.2009

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