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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Iniidae
"Stenodelphininae indet." = Iniidae
"Stenodelphininae indet." = Iniidae Gray 1846 toothed whale
Guadarrama places Stenodelphininae in Rhabdosteidae, which seems to be in error.
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Stenella sp. Gray 1866 dolphin
 Cetacea -
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle