Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 96.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Globorotalia aragonensis - Globorotalia pentacamerata foram zone, Bateque Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• The fossils are found between 96 and 145 m above the bottom of the section.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
• new gastropods, bivalves only
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and R. Demetrion. 1990. New Early Eocene Marine Gastropods from Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):99-103 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7928: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 08.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Calcarea | |
Elasmostoma bajaensis n. sp.1
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| Gastropoda | |
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Cypraedia cf. girauxi Cossmann and Pissarro 1911 snail Given as Cypraedia sp., but authors note strong similarities to C. girauxi.
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Platyoptera pacifica n. sp.
Platyoptera pacifica n. sp. Squires and Demetrion 1990 true conch | |
Velates batequensis n. sp.
Velates batequensis n. sp. Squires and Demetrion 1990 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Spondylus batequensis n. sp.2
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