Also known as Loc. 33A
Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (27.7° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 113.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salada Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Collected from beds 50 feet below Locality 30, From uppermost beds. Within the Western Cape region, the Salada Formation is represented by only 20 feet of calcareous cross-bedded pebbly sandstone, with abundant casts of fossils, but the formation is probably thicker at other parts of the formation. Posssibly outcrops described as Salada Fm are not all the same age, yet most appear to be Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, pebbly, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Stated that fossils were collected. No repositories reported. Collected by J.P. Smith
Primary reference: C. H. Beal. 1948. Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Memoir 31 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 43687: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Nassa aff. perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis
"Nassa aff. perpinguis" = Caesia perpinguis Hinds 1844 snail | |
Trophon belcheri murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten lawsoni" = Chlamys hastata, "Pecten aff. paucicostatus" = Leptopecten tumbezensis
"Pecten lawsoni" = Chlamys hastata Sowerby 1842 scallop
"Pecten aff. paucicostatus" = Leptopecten tumbezensis d'Orbigny 1846 scallop Listed as "Pecten sp. nov. aff. paucicostatus"
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"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula
"Ostrea palmula" = Saccostrea palmula Carpenter 1857 oyster | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |