Playa La Palmita, Mulege Fm, upper part (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (27.1° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 112.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MIS 5e zone, Mulege Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• 1.5-m-thick bed of fine- to mediumgrained carbonate sand containing abundant rhodolith debris and irregular echinoids

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. G. Baarli, A. Santos, C. M. Silva, J. Ledesma-Vazquez, E. Mayoral, M. Cachao, and M. E. Johnson. 2012. Diverse Macroids and Rhodoliths from the Upper Pleistocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Coastal Research 28(1):296-305 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia haimei stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
"Porites californica" = Porites panamensis
"Porites californica" = Porites panamensis Verrill 1866 stony coral
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus trigonus Darwin 1854 barnacle
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Protula sp. Risso 1826
 Serpulimorpha -
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Celleporaria sp. Lamouroux 1821
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus calcifer Carpenter 1857 scallop
 Cardiida - Chamidae
"Chama mexicana" = Chama frondosa mexicana
"Chama mexicana" = Chama frondosa mexicana Carpenter 1857 jewel box
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patellidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 limpet