Where: Veracruz, Mexico (21.4° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 97.4° 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. Amussium mortoni, Anomia simplex, Laevicardium sublineatum, and Ficus [Pyrula] papyratia are all know from the Yorktown and Waccamaw Formations = Early Pliocene. Text also suggests an "inferior Pliocene" age, though does not discount Miocene 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 59283: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Pyrula papyratia" = Ficus papyratia
"Pyrula papyratia" = Ficus papyratia Say 1822 fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Pecten santarosanus, "Amussium mortoni" = Amusium mortoni
Pecten santarosanus Bose 1905 scallop
"Amussium mortoni" = Amusium mortoni Ravenel 1844 scallop | |
Laevicardium laevicardium cockle |