San Judas (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as YPA032

Where: Colon, Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Gatun Member (Gatun Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Pimiento, A. Rincon, A. Hendy, B. MacFadden; reposited in the FLMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Screenwashing and surface prospecting

Primary reference: C. Pimiento, G. González-Barba, D. J. Ehret, B. J. MacFadden, A. J. W. Hendy and C. Jaramillo. 2013. Sharks and Rays (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the late Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):755-774 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160567: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 24.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Additions from the FLMNH database
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
 Rajiformes -
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Taeniura grabata Saint-Hilaire 1817 whiptail stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus narinari Euphrasen 1790 stingray