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
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 | |
Cyclostremiscus petiti n. sp.
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Teinostoma squiresi n. sp.
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Calyptraphorus terrysmithae Perrilliat 2013 snail | |
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Perrilliata califia n. gen. n. sp.1
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Propustularia kemperae Nelson 1925 cowry | |
Eocypraea novasumma Nelson 1925 snail | |
Amauropsis martinezensis, Gyrodes cf. robustus, Polinices (Euspira) simiensis, Polinices (Euspira) cf. hotsoni, Polinices (Polinices) saulae n. sp., Polinices (Polinices) hornii
Amauropsis martinezensis Dickerson 1914 moon snail
Gyrodes cf. robustus Waring 1917 moon snail
Polinices (Euspira) cf. hotsoni Weaver and Palmer 1922 moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) saulae n. sp. moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) hornii Gabb 1864 moon snail | |
"Amaea (Acrilla) sp." = Acrilla
"Amaea (Acrilla) sp." = Acrilla Adams and Adams 1860 wentletrap | |
Mesalia martinezensis Gabb 1869 turret shell
Turritella peninsularis Anderson and Hanna 1935 turret shell
Turritella reversa Waring 1917 turret shell | |
Margarites (Margarites) cf. semiornata Zinsmeister 1983 snail |