Where: Baja California, Mexico (26.7° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 97.5° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bateque Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• This collection is from section 2 of the author's four section division of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion. 1992. Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5503: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium stentor Anderson and Hanna 1925 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Conus caleocius Vokes 1939 cone shell | |
"Turritella lawsoni" = Turritella andersoni lawsoni, Turritella ? uvasana
"Turritella lawsoni" = Turritella andersoni lawsoni Dickerson 1916 turret shell Turritella andersoni lawsoni
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