CSUN Loc. 1470 [Bateque Fm]: Ypresian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae
- Dasycladales
- Dasycladaceae
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Dasycladaceae indet.
Kutzing 1843
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Asterocyclinidae
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Pseudophragmina clarki
(Cushman 1920)
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? in locality data | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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Echinolampas ? sp.
Gray 1825
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both Echinolampas sp. a and Echinolampas sp. b | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Oligopygidae
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Haimea bajasurensis n. sp.
Squires and Demetrion 1994
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Squires and Demetrion 1994 | |||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Schizaster sp.
Agassiz 1835
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schizaster sp. aff. S. lecontei | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Brissidae
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Eupatagus batequensis n. sp.
Squires and Demetrion 1992
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula batequensis n. sp.
Squires and Demetrion 1992
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella uvasana
Conrad 1855
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s.s. | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Gyrodes ? sp.
Conrad 1860
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Gastropoda
- Cymatiidae
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Olequahia domenginica
(Vokes 1939)
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original and current combination Ranella domenginica | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Galeodea sp.
Link 1807
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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? Olivella mathewsonii
Gabb 1864
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Clavilithes tabulatus
(Dickerson 1913)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Lyrischapa lajollaensis
(Hanna 1927)
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Gastropoda
- Seraphsidae
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Paraseraphs erraticus
(Cooper 1894)
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Ectinochilus sp.
Cossmann 1889
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synonym of Rimella | ||||||||||
Ectinochilus sp. cf. E. macilentus | ||||||||||
Rimella supraplicata
(Gabb 1864)
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Squires 2013 | |||||||||
Platyoptera pacifica
Squires and Demetrion 1990
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? in locality data | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Cylichnina tantilla
(Anderson and Hanna 1925)
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Scaphander ? sp.
Monfort 1810
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Velates perversus
(Gmelin 1791)
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Bivalvia
- Solenida
- Solenidae
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Solena novacularis
Anderson and Hanna 1925
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recombined as Solena (Eosolen) novacularis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar joaquinensis
Vokes 1939
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna llajasensis
Squires 1983
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collected as float | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Pycnodonte pacifica
Squires and Demetrion 1990
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recombined as Phygraea pacifica | ||||||||||
Pycnodonte bajaensis
Squires and Demetrion 1990
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Baja California |
Coordinates: | 26.5° North, 112.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.7° North, 96.2° West | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Capay |
Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bateque | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: This collection is from section 2 of the author's four section division of the formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,yellow poorly lithified sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: 90 m thick shallow-marine deposits that...consist of bioturbated and parallel-laminated, yellow, very fine-grained sandstone (75%) with many interbedded lenses (25%) filled with abundant macrofossils. lenses are described as poorly sorted coquinas. | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | LACM |
Metadata
Database number: | 5506 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | K. Layou, A. Doyle, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-10-08 08:50:53 | Last modified: | 2019-05-24 11:44:14 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-10-08 08:50:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
322. | R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion. 1992. Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou] |
Secondary references:
49270 | R. L. Squires. 2013. West Coast North America record of the Paleogene marine stromboid gastropod Rimella and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):826-841 [M. Uhen/S. Alam/M. Uhen] | |
38764 | R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion. 1994. A New Species of the Oligopygoid Echinoid Haimea from the Lower Eocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 68(4):846-851 [J. Alroy/A. Doyle/M. Uhen] |