Punta Mansueto (Miocene to of Panama)

Also known as Rio Indio Facies

Where: Colon, Panama (9.2° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Río Indio Member (Chagres Sandstone Formation), Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.

•~7.64 Ma (Hendy et al. in press).

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty sandstone

• ~50-80 m depth (Collins et al., 1996).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float),

• Deposited in the Palaeontological Institute and Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (PIMUZ A/I catalogue)

Primary reference: J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, C. De Gracia, C. Pimiento, O. A. Aguilera, R. Kindlimann, P. Santamarina, and C. Jaramillo. 2015. A new Late Miocene chondrichthyan assemblage from the Chagres Formation, Panama. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 60:56e70 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168112: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 16.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839 requiem shark
Carcharhinus obscurus Le Sueur 1818 requiem shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Carcharodon plicatilis" = Cosmopolitodus plicatilis
"Carcharodon plicatilis" = Cosmopolitodus plicatilis Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon