PU 1334 – Float material along the southern branch of Cajiloa Creek (Paleocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja, Mexico (29.8° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 96.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Globorotalia pseudomenardii foram zone, Sepultura Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shale and sandstone

• interbedded fine grained, thinly bedded, micaceous sandstones and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. d. C. Perrilliat. 2013. Fossil gastropods from the Late Paleocene Sepultura Formation, Baja California, Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie - Abhandlungen 268(2):127-148 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176456: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.02.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus petiti n. sp. Perrilliat 2013 snail
loc. 1344-4
 Sorbeoconcha - Tornidae
Teinostoma squiresi n. sp. Perrilliat 2013 snail
loc. 1344-8
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus terrysmithae Perrilliat 2013 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Popenoeum maritimus2 Squires et al. 1989 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Perrilliata califia n. gen. n. sp.1
Perrilliata califia n. gen. n. sp.1 Squires and Saul 2006 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Propustularia kemperae Nelson 1925 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Eocypraea novasumma Nelson 1925 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Amauropsis martinezensis Dickerson 1914 moon snail
Gyrodes cf. robustus Waring 1917 moon snail
Polinices (Euspira) simiensis Nelson 1925 moon snail
loc. 1344-8
Polinices (Euspira) cf. hotsoni Weaver and Palmer 1922 moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) saulae n. sp. moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) hornii Gabb 1864 moon snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Amaea (Acrilla) sp." = Acrilla
"Amaea (Acrilla) sp." = Acrilla Adams and Adams 1860 wentletrap
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell
Turritella peninsularis Anderson and Hanna 1935 turret shell
Turritella reversa Waring 1917 turret shell
Turritella infragranulata Gabb 1864 turret shell
Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae