Also known as SDMNH 0643

Where: Baja California, Mexico (29.0° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 118.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discovery Point Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 127-117 ka age (Marine Isotope Substage 5e) for corals that were directly dated from localities SDMNH 0633 (UCMP D1547), 0644, and 2465 (Muhs 1994); dates are inferred to apply to the rest of the Discovery Point Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified conglomerate and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by C.L. Hubbs and E.P. Chase in 1957; reposited in the SDSM, UCMP

Primary reference: D. R. Lindberg, B. Roth, M. G. Kellogg and C. L. Hubbs. 1980. Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico. In D. M. Power (ed.), The California Islands: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Symposium 41-70 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194399: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Emily Orzechowski on 19.06.2018

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