Cabo Pulmo (BC 8) (Pleistocene of Mexico)

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

• coral-bearing conglomerates

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

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea columbiensis2
Crassostrea columbiensis2 Hanley 1846 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus aff. princeps
Spondylus aff. princeps Broderip 1833 scallop
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp., Porites panamensis1, Porites lobata1
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites panamensis1 Verrill 1866 stony coral
Porites lobata1 Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora damicornis1, "Pocillopora meandrina" = Pocillopora verrucosa1, Pocillopora cf. elegans, Pocillopora capitata1
Pocillopora damicornis1 Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Pocillopora meandrina" = Pocillopora verrucosa1 Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Pocillopora cf. elegans Dana 1846 stony coral
Pocillopora capitata1 Verrill 1864 stony coral
1Lopez-Perez 2008; 2Moore 1987