Also known as "Type Zuluzum"

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.7° N, 91.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 90.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zuluzum Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "type Zuluzum", hence an informal unit, for which lithostratigraphic relations are unknown. AGE: early Late Miocene on the basis of macrofaunal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Uknown position in section or formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated explicitly, but probably Engerrand and Urbina, c. 1900's. REPOSITORY: UCMP, Berkeley.

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79952: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.03.2008

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