Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.3° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 111.1° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Pleistocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in succession.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected by Heyneman in 1963; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: W.R. Heyneman, 1963. REPOSITORY: CAS.
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1968. Three late Cenozoic molluscan faunules from Baja California. with a note on diatomite from west of San Felipe. Proceedings of the the California Academy of Sciences 30(19):401-405 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96586: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Polinices cf. reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana
"Polinices cf. reclusianus" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail | |
Oliva spicata Durham 1950 olive snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys (Nodipecten) subnodosa" = Nodipecten subnodosus, "Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) vogdesi" = Euvola vogdesi, "Chlamys (Argopecten) cricularis" = Argopecten ventricosus
"Chlamys (Nodipecten) subnodosa" = Nodipecten subnodosus Sowerby 1836 scallop
"Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) vogdesi" = Euvola vogdesi Arnold 1906 scallop
"Chlamys (Argopecten) cricularis" = Argopecten ventricosus Sowerby 1842 calico scallop | |
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon, "Ostrea cf. corteziensis" = Crassostrea corteziensis, Crassostrea columbiensis, Ostrea cf. angelica
"Ostrea megodon" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster
"Ostrea cf. corteziensis" = Crassostrea corteziensis Hertlein 1951 oyster
Crassostrea columbiensis Hanley 1846 oyster
Ostrea cf. angelica Rochebrune 1895 oyster | |
Anadara tuberculosa Sowerby I 1833 ark | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus (Balanus) sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |