Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.0° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 109.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. A. Lopez-Perez. 2008. Fossil corals from the Gulf of California, Mexico: still a depauperate fauna but it bears more species than previously thought. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 59(12):503-519 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119914: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Porites panamensis Verrill 1866 stony coral | |
Psammocora stellata Verrill 1866 stony coral | |
Pavona clavus Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Gardineroseris planulata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Pocillopora capitata Verrill 1864 stony coral |