Santa Rosalia, Pliocene: Pliocene, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis mendenhalli n. ssp.
(Arnold 1906)
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Kogiidae
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Pontoporiidae
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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| Avecilla-Guadarrama 1980 | ||||||||||
| or Stenella according to 15591 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Phocoenidae
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Baja California Sur |
| Coordinates: | 27.3° North, 112.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.1° North, 110.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tirabuzon | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle Pliocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: high energy, warm water | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | IGM Loc 81 | ||
| Database number: | 57779 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-12-22 13:04:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-12-22 13:04:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12691. | L. G. Barnes. 1998. The sequence of fossil marine mammal assemblages in Mexico. Avances en investigacion 1 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 71229 | R. Arnold. 1906. Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. USGS Professional Paper 47:1-264 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15591 | 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] | |
| 61621 | K. M. Cantalice, A. M. Martinez-Melo, and V. A. Romero-Mayén. 2019. The paleoichthyofauna housed in the Colección Nacional de Paleontología of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(2):429-452 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 58587 | J. Velez-Juarbe, A. R. Wood, and C. Pimiento. 2016. Pygmy sperm whales (Odontoceti, Kogiidae) from the Pliocene of Florida and North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1135806 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |