ammonites
CAS Loc. 1790 - Coalinga [Moreno Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

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: Moreno Formation (Asuncion Group), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Moreno Fm, Asuncion Gp, which overlies the Garzas Sand Mbr. AGE: Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the top of the Moreno (resembling Marca Shale).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Siliciclastic marine setting.
• LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Hanna in 1929; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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

Primary reference: S. Bengtson. 1992. Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans. In J.W. Schopf, C. Klein (eds.), The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study 1017-1034 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86853: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.02.2009

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