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 et al. in 1963; reposited in the SDSM
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 194415: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Emily Orzechowski on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Fissurella volcano Reeve 1849 snail | |
"Norrisia norrisi" = Norrisia norrisii, "Tegula gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina
"Norrisia norrisi" = Norrisia norrisii Sowerby I 1838 top snail
"Tegula gallina" = Chlorostoma gallina Forbes 1850 top snail | |
"Tegula eiseni" = Agathistoma eiseni
"Tegula eiseni" = Agathistoma eiseni Jordan 1936 snail | |
"Collisella limatula" = Lottia limatula Carpenter 1864 limpet
"Collisella scabra" = Lottia scabra Gould 1846 limpet
Lottia gigantea Sowerby 1834 limpet | |
Hipponix cranioides hoof shell | |
"Littorina keenae" = Littorina (Neritrema) keenae
"Littorina keenae" = Littorina (Neritrema) keenae Rosewater 1978 periwinkle | |
Mitrella guttata Sowerby 1832 snail | |
Mitra rupicola mitre shell | |
Thais planospira, "Morula lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris
Thais planospira murex snail
"Morula lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris Sowerby I 1822 murex snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora guadalupensis Durham 1980 stony coral | |
Astraea undosa | |
"Astraea undosa" = Megastraea undosa
"Astraea undosa" = Megastraea undosa Wood 1828 |