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Index to Papers in PALEOECOLOGY and TAPHONOMY of RECENT to PLEISTOCENE INTERTIDAL DEPOSITS, GULF of CALIFORNIA

Paleontological Society Special Publication #2

In conjunction with GSA

Edited by Kenneth R. Walker

1987

Preface ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. i

Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1

Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Recent to Pleistocene Intertidal Deposits, Gulf of California

Karl W. Flessa and A. A. Ekdale …………………………………………………………………… 2

Late Cenozoic Rocks in the Puerto Peñasco Area A. A. Ekdale ……………………………… 34

Grain Size and Provenance of Bahia la Choya Sediments Lawrence T. Sumpter ……………….. 44

Surficial Physical Sedimentary Structures of Bahia la Choya Michael J. Hayes ………………….. 52

Keys to the Shells of Bahia la Choya, Sonora, Mexico

Nancy Beckvar, Richard D. Norris and Sherman Suter; Illustrations by Richard D. Norris …….. 62

Color Pattern Variation in Populations of Theodoxus luteofasciatus in the Puerto Peñasco area

Dawn Hendry and A. A. Ekdale …………………………………………………………………. 104

Intertidal Bioerosion by Macroinvertebrates near Puerto Peflasco Northern Gulf of California

R. F. Stearley ……………………………………………………………………………………. 113

Variation in Shell Repair in Cerithium stercusmuscarum (Mollusca; Gastropoda),

Bahia la Choya, Sonora, Mexico Nancy Schmidt …………………………………………..… 128

Population Structure of Live and Dead Gastropods from Bahia la Choya

Patricia M. Hartshorne, William B. Gillespie and Karl W. Flessa ……………………………….… 139

Experiments on the Settling of Gastropod and Bivalve Shells: Biostratinomic Implications

Mary Anne McKittrick …………………………………………………………………………….. 150

Surface Textures of Shells as Taphonomic Indicators Alan H. Cutler ………………………….. 164

Biogenic and Physical Modes of Stratification and Shell Bed Formation in the Recent Intertidal

Environments of Bahia la Choya Keith H. Meldahl …………………………………………. 177

Origin of Shell Beds and Evolution of a Shelly Sand Spit, Bahia la Choya,

Northern Gulf of California Keith H. Meldahl …………………………………… 189

Taphonomy of Tidal Flat Molluscs in the Northern Gulf of California: Paleoenvironmental

Analysis Despite the Perils of Preservation. Franz T. Fürsich and Karl W. Flessa ………… 200

Compiled by Norman K. Christie; edited : 15 June, 2006

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