Isla Guadalupe (Holocene of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (28.9° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 118.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-P. Gallo-Reynoso and A.-L. Figueroa-Carranza. 1995. Occurrence of bottlenose whales in the waters of Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Marine Mammal Science 11(4):573-575 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 201786: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850 beaked whale
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier 1824 Cuvier's beaked whale
Berardius bairdii Stejneger 1883 beaked whale
Hyperoodon sp. Lacépède 1804 beaked whale
possibly a new species
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
"Physeter catodon" = Physeter macrocephalus
"Physeter catodon" = Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale
 Cetacea - Kogiidae
Kogia sp. Gray 1846 pygmy sperm whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Orcinus orca Linnaeus 1758 orca
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 short-finned pilot whale
Grampus griseus Cuvier 1812 Risso's dolphin
Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 common bottlenose dolphin
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus 1758 short-beaked common dolphin
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera physalus Linnaeus 1758 fin whale
Balaenoptera musculus Linnaeus 1758 blue whale