Bahia Coyote (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.6° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 110.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• last interglacial stage MIS 5

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• thick Porites patches with open-framework structure, no cementing algae; small Porites and Pocillopora beds within rhodolith-molluscan marls and sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. DeDiego-Forbis, R. Douglas, D. Gorsline, E. Nava-Sanchez, L. Mack and J. Banner. 2004. Late Pleistocene (Last Interglacial) terrace deposits, Bahia Coyote, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Quaternary International 120:29-40 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp.
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites panamensis
Porites panamensis Verrill 1866 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp.
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp.
Petaloconchus sp. Lea 1843 worm shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Trigoniocardia biangulata" = Ctenocardia biangulata
"Trigoniocardia biangulata" = Ctenocardia biangulata Broderip and Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp.
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp.
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus princeps
Spondylus princeps Broderip 1833 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula inezana" = Plicatula spondylopsis
"Plicatula inezana" = Plicatula spondylopsis Rochebrune 1895 scallop