Also known as Loc. 38

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.1° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 109.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• On Isla Carmen, the formation is exposed on both coasts, and is for the most part a soft, white, fossilifeous, sandstone weathering yellow, together with a small amount of soft, white, sandy shale. 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; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, white, yellow sandstone and poorly lithified, white, sandy shale

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 43683: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2004

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