UCMP Loc. A-6289 - Punta Cabras (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (31.0° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 116.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Sediments overlying basalts, and nearby to Aptian tuffs of the Allisto Fm. THICKNESS: Unknown thickness. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown thickness.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow water, nearshore environment, bordering an open, precipitous coast.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No specific facies described. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on facies description of adjacent collections.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Kirk and MacIntyre (1950). REPOSITORY: University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Primary reference: W. O. Addicott and W. K. Emerson. 1959. Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1925:1-33 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67645: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, scaphopoda, polyplacophora, echinoidea, cirripedia, and bryozoans. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with occurrences assigned to species resolution by specialist.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
""Mangelia" barbarensis" = Kurtziella (Kurtziella) plumbea
""Mangelia" barbarensis" = Kurtziella (Kurtziella) plumbea Hinds 1843 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris ? profunda" = Glycymeris septentrionalis
"Glycymeris ? profunda" = Glycymeris septentrionalis Middendorf 1849 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma acolasta" = Macoploma acolasta
"Macoma acolasta" = Macoploma acolasta Dall 1921 tellin clam