Los Placeritos (Pliocene of Mexico)

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

• rich bioclastic sandstone with abundant pectinids, fossils of echinoderms, barnacles, oysters, shark teeth, turtles, and odontocete and mysticete whales

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Protoglobicephala mexicana n. gen. n. sp. Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009 dolphin
 Cetacea -
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale