Bahia Tortugas (Pliocene of Mexico)
Where: Baja California, Mexico (27.7° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 113.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine
Primary reference: C. Avecilla-Guadarrama. 1980. Localidades fosiliferas con Cetaceos en el Neogeno da Baja California, Mexico. Actas II Congresso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia. Buenos Aires. II:335-339 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57981: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.01.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
| Mammalia | |
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Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale | |
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Stenella sp. Gray 1866 dolphin | |
"Stenodelphininae indet." = Iniidae
"Stenodelphininae indet." = Iniidae Gray 1846 toothed whale Guadarrama places Stenodelphininae in Rhabdosteidae, which seems to be in error.
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