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)

• coordinate stated in text

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

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Dalpiazinidae
? Dalpiazinidae indet.2
? Dalpiazinidae indet.2 Muizon 1988 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Niparajacetus palmadentis n. gen. n. sp.3, Chaeomysticeti indet.2, Tlaxcallicetus sp.1, Tlaxcallicetus guaycurae n. gen. n. sp.1
Niparajacetus palmadentis n. gen. n. sp.3 Solis-Añorve et al. 2019 whale
Chaeomysticeti indet.2 whale
MHN-UABCS EcSj5/06/31
Tlaxcallicetus sp.1 Cisneros 2018 whale
Tlaxcallicetus guaycurae n. gen. n. sp.1 Cisneros 2018 whale
 Cetacea - Aetiocetidae
? Aetiocetus sp.2
? Aetiocetus sp.2 Emlong 1966 whale
MHN-UABCS EcSj5/24/123
 Cetacea - Kekenodontidae
? Kekenodontidae indet.2
? Kekenodontidae indet.2 whale
MHN-UABCS EcSj5/16/267
1Cisneros 2018; 2Hernández Cisneros et al. 2017; 3Solis-Añorve et al. 2019