El Saladito (Oligocene of Mexico)
Also known as Terreros El Saladito
Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.4° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 102.3° W)
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When: San Juan Member (El Cien Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous, phosphatic, gray mudstone
• The San Juan Member is mainly composed of laminated, partly tuffaceous, siliceous, diatomaceous or phosphatic mudstones, partly phosphatic silt- and sandstones, granular phosphorite, tuff and conglomerates (Fischer et al., 1995).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C.-H. Tsai and A. E. Hernández-Cisneros. 2016. A possible enigmatic kekenodontid (Cetacea, Kekenodontidae) from the Oligocene of Mexico. Palaeontologiá Mexicana 5(2):147-155 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 183475: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.12.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Niparajacetus palmadentis n. gen. n. sp.3, Chaeomysticeti indet.2, Tlaxcallicetus sp.1, Tlaxcallicetus guaycurae n. gen. n. sp.1
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