Los Placeritos: Piacenzian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Protoglobicephala mexicana n. gen., n. sp.
Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Baja California Sur |
| Coordinates: | 25.0° North, 110.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.8° North, 109.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: unnamed late Pliocene deposit |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: rich bioclastic sandstone with abundant pectinids, fossils of echinoderms, barnacles, oysters, shark teeth, turtles, and odontocete and mysticete whales | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 91183 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | F. Marx |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2009-09-09 05:24:40 | Last modified: | 2019-06-17 12:26:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-09 05:24:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30676. | 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] |