Bahia Tortugas: Pliocene, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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Reynoso 2006 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Stenella sp.
(Gray 1866)
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Iniidae
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Stenodelphininae indet.
Miller 1923
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| synonym of Iniidae | ||||||||||
| Guadarrama places Stenodelphininae in Rhabdosteidae, which seems to be in error. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Baja California |
| Coordinates: | 27.7° North, 114.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.5° North, 113.6° West | ||
| 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
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57981 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-01-12 12:35:11 | Last modified: | 2007-12-06 12:23:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-12 12:35:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 46663 | V.-H. Reynoso. 2006. Research on fossil amphibians and reptiles in Mexico, from 1869 to early 2004 (including marine forms but excluding pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and obviously, birds). In F. J. Vega, T. G. Nyborg, M. Del Carmen Perrilliat, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, S. A. Quiroz-Barroso (eds.), Studies on Mexican Paleontology 24:209-231 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 28735 | O. Vidal. 1991. Catalog of osteological collections of aquatic mammals from Mexico. NOAA Technical Reports NMFS 97:1-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |