Where: Baja California, Mexico (31.0° N, 115.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 113.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Childers in 1966; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: W.M. Childers, 1966. REPOSITORY: CAS.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96587: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.06.2010

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