Santa Rosalia, Pliocene (Pliocene of Mexico)
Also known as IGM Loc 81
Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (27.3° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 111.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Tirabuzon Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• middle Pliocene
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
• high energy, warm water
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. G. Barnes. 1998. The sequence of fossil marine mammal assemblages in Mexico. Avances en investigacion 1 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57779: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis" = Lyropecten cerrosensis1
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis" = Lyropecten cerrosensis1 Gabb 1866 scallop n. subspecies mendenhalli
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Mammalia | |
Otariinae indet. Gray 1825 eared seal | |
Phocoeninae indet. Gray 1825 porpoise | |
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aff. Pontoporia sp. Gray 1846 toothed whale | |
cf. Scaphokogia sp. Muizon 1988 pygmy sperm whale | |
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821 sperm whale | |
Balaenopterinae indet. Flower 1865 rorqual |