Santa Anita (Pliocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (23.1° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 107.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; lithology not reported

• low/middle to steep slope settings, temperate

Size class: macrofossils

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 57978: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.01.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Plesiocetus sp. Van Beneden 1859 whale