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Chico - Moreno - Dos Palos, San Benito County, California, USA

GroupChico
FormationMoreno
MemberDos Palos
Age:70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
IntervalLate Maastrichtian
Number of Collections1
Number of Occurrences1

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
ToxochelyidSan Benito County, California, USAChico - Moreno - Dos Palos

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Chico - Moreno70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
shale4
Chico - Moreno - Dosados72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
shale1
Chico - Moreno - Manca70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
1
Chico - Moreno - Marca72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
shale3
Chico - Moreno - Tierra Loma72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
shale9

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Hadrosauridae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Workman Ford K. (2006) Stratigraphic positions of marine reptile and dinosaur specimens in the Moreno Formation, in the Tumey Hills and Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California, Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35, 407-410
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