Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (23.4° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 109.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1959. Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History expedition to western Mexico. Part 7: Corals and coral reefs in the Gulf of California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 118:367-432 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89598: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.06.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus aff. princeps Broderip 1833 scallop | |
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Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora damicornis1, Pocillopora cf. elegans, Pocillopora capitata1, "Pocillopora meandrina" = Pocillopora verrucosa1
Pocillopora cf. elegans Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral |