Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.1° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 111.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• ?Middle Pleistocene
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. A. Lopez-Perez. 2008. Fossil corals from the Gulf of California, Mexico: still a depauperate fauna but it bears more species than previously thought. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 59(12):503-519 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 119926: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora elegans Dana 1846 stony coral
Pocillopora capitata Verrill 1864 stony coral | |
Porites panamensis Verrill 1866 stony coral | |
Pavona gigantea Verrill 1869 stony coral |