LSJU Loc. 60, Scammon Lagoon (Miocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (27.8° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 107.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Isidro Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Isidro Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Lower Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From "Turritella bed" of unknown position.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, gray sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained gray sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hake

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: B.F. Hake. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly LSJU.

Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein and E. K. Jordan. 1927. Paleontology of the Miocene of Lower California. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 16(19):605-647 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96569: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature, and variable species or genus resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Forreria sp. Jousseaume 1880 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Chione aff. temblorensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis
"Chione aff. temblorensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis Anderson 1905 venus clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris swartsi n. sp." = Glycymeris (Glycymeris) swartsi
"Glycymeris swartsi n. sp." = Glycymeris (Glycymeris) swartsi Hertlein and Jordan 1927 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) diminutivus n. sp." = Argopecten diminutivus
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) diminutivus n. sp." = Argopecten diminutivus Hertlein and Jordan 1927 calico scallop