Also known as Refugio, San Jose del Cabo

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.8° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 110.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salada Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Rocks are mapped as Pliocene, but may in fact be Pleistocene. They lie directly upon the crystalline focks or on the underlying formation believed to be Ysidro in age. The strata appear to consist of several hundred feet of strata, the lower part of which is brown sandstone and the upper part white sandstone. Posssibly outcrops described as Salada Fm are not all the same age, yet most appear to be Pliocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, brown, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Stated that fossils were collected. No repositories reported.

Primary reference: C. H. Beal. 1948. Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Memoir 31 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 43680: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2004

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