Where: Mexico (31.0° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 116.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Sediments overlying basalts, and nearby to Aptian tuffs of the Allisto Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown thickness. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown thickness.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Kirk and MacIntyre (1950). REPOSITORY: University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Primary reference: W. O. Addicott and W. K. Emerson. 1959. Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1925:1-33 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67645: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
""Mangelia" barbarensis" = Kurtziella (Kurtziella) plumbea
""Mangelia" barbarensis" = Kurtziella (Kurtziella) plumbea Hinds 1843 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Macoma acolasta" = Macoploma acolasta
"Macoma acolasta" = Macoploma acolasta Dall 1921 tellin clam | |
"Glycymeris ? profunda" = Glycymeris septentrionalis
"Glycymeris ? profunda" = Glycymeris septentrionalis Middendorf 1849 clam |