Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.9° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 112.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: late Middle Pleistocene; last Interglacial, oxygen isotope stage 5e: Emerson et al., 1981; Ashby & Minch, 1987; Ashby et al., 1987; Jung, 1989; Ortlieb, 1991; Careño & Smith, 2007: 85-86. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Landau
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY: Bernard Landau collection.
Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136256: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Reticutriton lineatus Broderip 1833 triton shell | |
Marsupina strongi Jordan 1936 frog shell
Crossata ventricosa Broderip 1833 frog shell | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Cypraecassis coarctata Sowerby 1825 snail
Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl and Alf 2000 snail
Semicassis centiquadrata Valenciennes 1832 snail |