Where: Mexico (31.5° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 116.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Fossils from basal 1-6-foot stratum, at about 25 feet above sea level.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.W. Durham, E.C. Allison, W.O. Addicott, W.K. Emerson in 1952; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: W. K. Emerson. 1956. Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, with remarks on the composition of the Pacific coast Quaternary faunas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 111:313-342 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52347: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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