Also known as YPA014
Where: Panama, Panama (9.4° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Culebra Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• undifferentiated unit
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Pimiento and A. Hendy; reposited in the FLMNH
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float),
Primary reference: C. Pimiento, G. González-Barba, A.J.W. Hendy, C. Jaramillo, B. J. MacFadden, C. Montes, S. C. Suarez and M. Shippritt. 2013. Early Miocene chondrichthyans from the Culebra Formation Panama A window into marine vertebrate faunas before closure the Central American Seaway. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 42:159-170 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 159352: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 31.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark | |
Negaprion breviostris lemon shark | |
"Carcharocles chubutensis" = Carcharodon subauriculatus
"Carcharocles chubutensis" = Carcharodon subauriculatus Agassiz 1839 white shark |