Where: Oxaca, Mexico (18.0° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 95.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Unknown lithostratigraphic data. Table of known taxon biostratigraphic distribution suggests a Pliocene age. Many taxa are known from the Yorktown, Waccamaw, Gurabo, and Bowden Formations = Early Pliocene. Text also suggests an "inferior Pliocene" age.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Missing supplementary information as text is in spanish. Will derive this at a later stage. Unknown museum repositary for this collection
Primary reference: E. Bose. 1906. Sobre algunas faunas terciarias. Boletin del Instituto Geologico de Mexico 22 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59284: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Euvola) bowdenensis" = Euvola bowdenensis, Pecten (Chlamys) santarosanus
"Pecten (Euvola) bowdenensis" = Euvola bowdenensis Dall 1898 scallop
Pecten (Chlamys) santarosanus Bose 1905 scallop | |
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"Venus (Chione) ebergengyii" = Chione
"Venus (Chione) ebergengyii" = Chione venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Solarium villarelloi" = Architectonica nobilis
"Solarium villarelloi" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
"Strombus pugilus" = Strombus pugilis
"Strombus pugilus" = Strombus pugilis Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
"Pyrula papyratia" = Ficus papyratia
"Pyrula papyratia" = Ficus papyratia Say 1822 fig shell | |
Marginella willcoxiana, Marginella cineracea, Marginella cordiformis, Marginella dalli, Marginella latior
Marginella willcoxiana margin shell
Marginella cineracea margin shell
Marginella cordiformis Bose 1906 margin shell
Marginella dalli Bose 1906 margin shell
Marginella latior Bose 1906 margin shell | |
"Oliva cf. litterata" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
"Oliva cf. litterata" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail | |
"Crassispira (Hindsiclava) consors" = Hindsiclava consors3
"Crassispira (Hindsiclava) consors" = Hindsiclava consors3 Sowerby 1850 snail Subspecies: Pleurotoma (Drillia) alesidota magna
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Conus agassizi, "Conus cf. verrucosus" = Conus jaspideus, Conus burckhardti, "Conus scaliae" = Conus consobrinus
"Conus cf. verrucosus" = Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 cone shell
"Conus scaliae" = Conus consobrinus Sowerby 1850 cone shell | |
Pleurotoma (Drillia) inaudita Bose 1906 turrid | |
Melongena (Pugilina) melongena Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Cominella plicatilis" = Calophos plicatilis
"Cominella plicatilis" = Calophos plicatilis Bose 1906 snail | |
"Phos mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus
"Phos mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus Bose 1906 true whelk | |
Xenophora cf. conchyliophora Born 1780 carrier shell | |
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Vermetus (Petaloconchus) pulcher, "Vermetus (Anguinella) virginicus" = Anguinella virginica
Vermetus (Petaloconchus) pulcher Bose 1906 worm shell
"Vermetus (Anguinella) virginicus" = Anguinella virginica Conrad 1839 worm shell | |
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Turritella tuctepecensis turret shell
Turritella aguilerae Bose 1906 turret shell | |
Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) limulum top snail |