CSUN Loc. 1293 [Bateque Fm] (Eocene of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (26.5° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 98.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: CP14a zone, Bateque Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• 9 m thick section near the base of the FM.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, gray mudstone

• From warm waters, below wave base.
• very weathered, reddish grey mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Bivalves only.

Primary reference: R. L. Squires and R. Demetrion. 1990. New Eocene Marine Bivalves from Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 64(3):382-391 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7952: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 09.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea mezquitalensis n. sp.
Cubitostrea mezquitalensis n. sp. Squires and Demetrion 1990 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Batequeus mezquitalensis n. gen. n. sp.
Batequeus mezquitalensis n. gen. n. sp. Squires and Demetrion 1990 scallop