Alborada (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as YPA030

Where: Colon, Panama (9.3° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 78.1° W)

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When: Lower Member (Gatun Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 160574: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 24.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus narinari Euphrasen 1790 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus falciformis Bibron 1841 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon