Bahia Santa Inés [Mulegé Terrace] (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.9° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 112.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: late Middle Pleistocene; last Interglacial, oxygen isotope stage 5e: Emerson et al., 1981; Ashby & Minch, 1987; Ashby et al., 1987; Jung, 1989; Ortlieb, 1991; Careño & Smith, 2007: 85-86. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but likely from a shallow marine siliciclastic facies.
• LITHOLOGY: Not reported in text, but assumed to be siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Landau

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY: Bernard Landau collection.

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136256: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Cypraecassis coarctata Sowerby 1825 snail
Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl and Alf 2000 snail
Semicassis centiquadrata Valenciennes 1832 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Reticutriton lineatus Broderip 1833 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Crossata ventricosa Broderip 1833 frog shell
Marsupina strongi Jordan 1936 frog shell