Rancho La Palma (Oligocene to of Mexico)

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.0° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Schwennicke, G. González-Barba, and N. Anda Franco. 1996. Lower Miocene marine and fluvial beds at Rancho La Palma, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Boletín del Departamento de Geología de la Universidad de Sonora 13(1):1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 159695: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Rancho La Palma Local Fauna
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Echericetus novellus n. gen. n. sp.
Echericetus novellus n. gen. n. sp. Hernández-Cisneros et al. 2024 whale