San Felipe, north (Holocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (31.5° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 114.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; unlithified mudstone and unlithified sandstone

• muddy channel and sandy ridge

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: P. M. Liebig, K. W. Flessa, and T. A. Taylor. 2007. Taphonomic variation despite catastrophic mortality: Analysis of a mass stranding of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens), Gulf of California, Mexico. Palaios 22:384-391 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75142: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Pseudorca crassidens Owen 1846 false killer whale
Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 common bottlenose dolphin
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Zalophus californianus Lesson 1828 California sea lion