Where: Baja California, Mexico (29.0° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 118.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discovery Point Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 127-117 ka age (Marine Isotope Substage 5e) for corals that were directly dated from localities SDMNH 0633 (UCMP D1547), 0644, and 2465 (Muhs 1994); dates are inferred to apply to the rest of the Discovery Point Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified conglomerate and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collected by C.L. Hubbs in 1967; reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: D. R. Lindberg, B. Roth, M. G. Kellogg and C. L. Hubbs. 1980. Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico. In D. M. Power (ed.), The California Islands: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Symposium 41-70 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194429: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Emily Orzechowski on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Tetraclita squamosa barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Pinnixa sp. White 1846 crab | |
Xanthidae indet. MacLeay 1838 stone crab | |
Paguridae indet. Latreille 1802 hermit crab | |
Petrolisthes edwardsii decapod | |
Gastropoda | |
Pedipes liratus snail | |
"Tegula eiseni" = Agathistoma eiseni
"Tegula eiseni" = Agathistoma eiseni Jordan 1936 snail | |
Echinoidea | |
"Eucidaris thouarsii" = Cidaris thouarsii
"Eucidaris thouarsii" = Cidaris thouarsii Valencienncs 1846 pencil urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora guadalupensis Durham 1980 stony coral |