CSUN Loc. 1219 [Bateque Fm] (Eocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (26.9° N, 113.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 96.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bateque Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• this collection is from section 2 of the author's four section division of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone and lithified limestone

• 90 m thick shallow-marine deposits that...consist of bioturbated and parallel-laminated, yellow, very fine-grained sandstone (75%) with many interbedded lenses (25%) filled with abundant macrofossils

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion. 1992. Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5494: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.10.1999, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Asterocyclinidae
Pseudophragmina clarki
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp.
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp.
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel