Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.2° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 105.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Isidro Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Isidro Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Lower Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From "Turritella bed" of unknown position.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: E.C. Brown. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly LSJU.
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein and E. K. Jordan. 1927. Paleontology of the Miocene of Lower California. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 16(19):605-647 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96568: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
"Turritella ocoyana" = Turritella ocoyana, "Turritella wittichi n. sp." = Turritella ocoyana
"Turritella ocoyana" = Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell
"Turritella wittichi n. sp." = Turritella ocoyana Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Lyropecten) pretiosus" = Lyropecten pretiosus
"Pecten (Lyropecten) pretiosus" = Lyropecten pretiosus Hertlein 1925 scallop | |
"Ostrea angermanni n. sp." = Dendostrea angermanni, "Ostrea freudenbergi n. sp." = Striostrea freudenbergi, Ostrea sp.
"Ostrea angermanni n. sp." = Dendostrea angermanni Hertlein and Jordan 1927 oyster
"Ostrea freudenbergi n. sp." = Striostrea freudenbergi Hertlein and Jordan 1927 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |