Where: North Pacific (15.5° N, 155.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 170.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Late Campanian-Maastrichtian, likely middle Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, volcaniclastic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Research Ship Gelendzhik in 2009

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Far Eastern Geological Institute (DVGI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov, M. E. Melnikov, A. M. Popov, S. P. Pletnev, V. D. Khudik and T. A. Punina. 2012. Cephalopod and brachiopod fossils from the Pacific: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of the Magellan Seamounts. Geobios 45:145-156 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209773: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2020

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