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 stratum exposed in railroad cut.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gifford in 1948
• COLLECTOR: E.W. Gifford. 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 96561: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Antropora tincta Hastings 1930 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Brachidontes multiformis" = Mytilus multiformis
"Brachidontes multiformis" = Mytilus multiformis Carpenter 1857 mussel | |
"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula Carpenter 1857 oyster
Ostrea conchaphila Carpenter 1857 oyster
Ostrea cf. angelica Rochebrune 1895 oyster | |
"Arca solida" = Arcopsis solida
"Arca solida" = Arcopsis solida Sowerby I 1833 clam | |
"Glans affinis" = Carditamera affinis
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"Lucina lampra" = Cavilinga lampra
"Lucina lampra" = Cavilinga lampra Dall 1901 clam | |
"Corbula nasuta" = Caryocorbula nasuta
"Corbula nasuta" = Caryocorbula nasuta Sowerby 1833 clam | |
"Cardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera
"Cardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera Sowerby 1833 cockle | |
Semele guaynasensis clam | |
"Protothaca grata" = Leukoma grata Say 1831 venus clam
Dosinia ponderosa Gray 1838 venus clam
Chione californiensis Broderip and Sowerby I 1835 venus clam
Megapitaria squalida Sowerby 1833 venus clam |