Also known as Loc. 33
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)
• 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.
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 43688: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Dendraster cf. hesperis Kew 1920 sand dollar
Dendraster diegoensis Kew 1920 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea cerrosensis" = Undulostrea megodon
"Ostrea cerrosensis" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster | |
"Pecten hemphilli" = Euvola bella, "Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea, "Pecten aff. mendenhalli" = Argopecten mendenhalli
"Pecten hemphilli" = Euvola bella Conrad 1856 scallop
"Hinnites giganteus" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop
"Pecten aff. mendenhalli" = Argopecten mendenhalli Arnold 1906 calico scallop Listed as "Pecten sp. nov. aff. mendenhalli"
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