Where: Ecuador (0.5° S, 91.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 91.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pleistocene or Holocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Sandstone rocks on beach covered at high tide.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Slevin in 1927; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: J. R. 1927. REPOSITORY: CAS.
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1939. Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 23(24):367-380 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96864: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea nigropunctata" = Pseudozonaria nigropunctata
"Cypraea nigropunctata" = Pseudozonaria nigropunctata Gray 1828 cowry | |
"Trivia pacifica" = Niveria (Niveria) pacifica
"Trivia pacifica" = Niveria (Niveria) pacifica Gray 1832 snail | |
Nassarius nodicinctus Adams 1852 snail | |
Pyrene castanea snail
Pyrene fuscata snail | |
Morum tuberculosum Sowerby 1885 snail | |
Conus purpurascens cone shell | |
Hipponix grayanus hoof shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula
"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula Carpenter 1857 oyster |