Where: Baja California, Mexico (26.7° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 96.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bateque Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• This collection is from section 2 of the author's four section division of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion. 1992. Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5499: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Pseudophragmina clarki Cushman 1920 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843 | |
Anthozoa | |
Antillia batequensis n. sp.
Antillia batequensis n. sp. Squires and Demetrion 1992 stony coral | |
Stephanocyathus ? sp. Seguenza 1864 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Arene mcleani Squires 1988 snail | |
Tenagodus bajaensis n. sp.
Tenagodus bajaensis n. sp. Squires 1990 snail | |
Turritella andersoni Dickerson 1916 turret shell | |
Eocernina hannibali Dickerson 1914 snail
Pachycrommium clarki Stewart 1927 snail | |
Clavilithes tabulatus Dickerson 1913 snail | |
Lyria andersoni Waring 1917 volute | |
Gyrodes ? sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail | |
Velates perversus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Echinoidea | |
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