Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (25.0° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 109.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• unnamed late Pliocene deposit
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Aguirre-Fernández, L. G. Barnes, F. J. Aranda-Manteca and J. R. Fernández-Rivera. 2009. Protoglobicephala mexicana, a new genus and species of Pliocene fossil dolphin (Cetacea; Odontoceti; Delphinidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 61(2):245-265 [M. Uhen/F. Marx/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91183: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Felix Marx on 09.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale | |
Protoglobicephala mexicana n. gen. n. sp.
Protoglobicephala mexicana n. gen. n. sp. Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009 dolphin | |
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale |