Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.5° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 96.2° 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

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 5507: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.10.1999, edited by Susan Tremblay

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