CAS Loc. 38742, Punta Conejo: Pleistocene, Mexico
collected by Heyneman 1963

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva spicata (Durham 1950)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara tuberculosa (Sowerby I 1833)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea megodon Hanley 1846
Ostrea cf. angelica Rochebrune 1895
    = Crassostrea columbiensis Hanley 1846
Moore 1987
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus (Balanus) sp. Da Costa 1778
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Baja California Sur
Coordinates: 24.3° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.5° North, 111.0° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but probably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:CAS
Collectors:Heyneman Collection dates:1963
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W.R. Heyneman, 1963. REPOSITORY: CAS.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96586
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-13 12:29:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-06-13 12:29:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
32783. 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]

Secondary references:

19331 E. J. Moore. 1987. Tertiary Marine Pelycypods of California and Baja California: Plicatulidae to Ostreidae. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1228(C):1-53 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]