CAS Loc. 40666, San Felipe: Pliocene, Mexico
collected by Childers 1967

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Mellitidae
Encope tenuis Kew 1914
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella imperialis Hanna 1926
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria princeps Sowerby 1825
recombined as Triplofusus princeps
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena patula (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus cf. granulatus Swainson 1822
recombined as Persististrombus granulatus
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
Bulla cf. gouldiana Pilsbry 1895
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Euvola) keepi (Arnold 1906)
recombined as Euvola keepi
Chlamys (Argopecten) cf. abietis (Jordan and Hertlein 1926)
recombined as Argopecten abietis
Pecten (Pecten) cf. lunaris Berry 1963
replaced by Leopecten stillmani
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea cf. angelica Rochebrune 1895
Ostrea cf. vespertina Conrad 1855
recombined as Dendostrea vespertina
Ostrea californica (Mareon 1858)
    = Crassostrea columbiensis Hanley 1846
Moore 1987
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ostrea heermanni (Conrad 1855)
recombined as Pycnodonte heermanni
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara multicostata (Sowerby 1833)
recombined as Larkinia multicostata
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Baja California
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 115.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.8° North, 113.8° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Pliocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy; faunal compositional similarities with Imperial Fm of California. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in succession.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but probably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:CAS
Collectors:Childers Collection dates:1967
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W.M. Childers, 1967. REPOSITORY: CAS.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96588
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-13 12:39:22 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2010-06-13 12:39:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32783. L. G. Hertlein. 1968. Three late Cenozoic molluscan faunules from Baja California. with a note on diatomite from west of San Felipe. Proceedings of the the California Academy of Sciences 30(19):401-405 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19331 E. J. Moore. 1987. Tertiary Marine Pelycypods of California and Baja California: Plicatulidae to Ostreidae. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1228(C):1-53 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]