Praia de Fortalezinha (Miocene of Brazil)

Where: Para, Brazil (0.6° S, 47.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 43.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pirabas Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Araujo Tavora, A. A. R. dos Santos, and R. N. Araujo. 2010. Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais, Belém 5(2):207-224 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112591: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
 Siluriformes - Ariidae
Arius sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1840 Ariid catfish
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray