Where: Fresno County, California (36.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 96.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dosados Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. N. Staebler in 1979; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. E. Foster. 1980. Osteopygis sp., a marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous Moreno Formation of California. PaleoBios 34:1-15 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76728: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2007, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Euclastes sp. Cope 1870 turtle UCMP 123616 (a crushed, but complete skull with attached mandible, two humeri, three peripheral plates, one scapula, and numerous unidentifiable bone fragments of probable limb and digital origin)
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