Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 87.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit; possibly a correlative or slightly younger of Pleasants Sandstone. AGE: Highest Campanian or possibly lowest Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. Here assigned to the Campanian to avoid stratigraphic orphaning. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local stratigraphic section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Saul in 1949

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L. E. Saul, 1949. REPOSITORY: UCLA.

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 86872: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.02.2009

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