Where: Sonora, Mexico (31.3° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 113.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit, which unconformably overlies granitic rocks. AGE: Late Pleistocene, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Fossiliferous sandstone 1 to 6 feet in thickness.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: W. K. Emerson, A. P. Loring, and J. A. Powell, 1954. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possible SDNHM.
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1956. Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 12(8):154-176 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96559: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
"Polinices reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail | |
Acanthina angelica unicorn | |
Tegula rugosa snail | |
"Turbo fluctuosus" = Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus
"Turbo fluctuosus" = Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus Wood 1828 snail | |
Acmaea mesoleuca limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea angelica, "Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula
Ostrea angelica Rochebrune 1895 oyster
"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula Carpenter 1857 oyster | |
"Arca gradata" = Barbatia (Acar) gradata
"Arca gradata" = Barbatia (Acar) gradata Broderip and Sowerby 1829 miniature ark | |
Diplodonta orbella Gould 1851 clam | |
Chione californiensis, "Protothaca grata" = Leukoma grata
Chione californiensis Broderip and Sowerby I 1835 venus clam
"Protothaca grata" = Leukoma grata Say 1831 venus clam | |
"Glans affinis" = Carditamera affinis
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Gymnolaemata | |
Antropora tincta Hastings 1930 |