Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Laguna Seca Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Basal conglomerate at the K-T boundary.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, gray, yellow, sandy conglomerate

Reposited in the UCMP

• Burial in comglomerate indicates transport of fossils. Fossils should be older than this bed.

Primary reference: J. T. Smith. 1975. Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California. Paleogene Symposium & Selected Technical Papers: Conference on Future Energy Horizons of the Pacific Coast 464-483 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11122: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.07.2001

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