Mesa Los Indios (Miocene of Mexico)
Where: Baja California, Mexico (32.1° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 112.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Rosarito Beach Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithology not reported
• range from fluvatile and lacustrine to shallow open marine shelf
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1998. The sequence of fossil marine mammal assemblages in Mexico. Avances en investigacion 1 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57777: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.12.2005, edited by Catalina Pimiento
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon Specimens studied from the SDNHM collections
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| Mammalia | |
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Dugongidae indet. Gray 1821 dugong | |
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aff. Neotherium sp. Kellogg 1931 walrus | |
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aff. Tiphyocetus sp. Kellogg 1931 whale | |
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Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936 toothed whale | |
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aff. Desmostylus sp. Marsh 1888 desmostylian | |