Camarones River (Miocene to of Ecuador)
Where: Ecuador (1.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 78.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Onzole Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, muddy siltstone
• fine- grained muddy turbidites
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. D. Carillo-Briceño, O. A. Aguilera, and F. Rodriguez. 2014. Fossil Chondrichthyes from the central eastern Pacific Ocean and their paleoceanographic significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 51:76-90 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204352: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
Isistius cf. triangulus Probst 1879 shark | |
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806 angel shark | |
Pristiophorus sp. Bleeker 1859 saw shark | |
Sphyrna media Springer 1940 hammerhead shark | |
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929 sharpnose shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus albimarginatus Rüppell 1837 requiem shark | |
cf. Mobula sp. Rafinesque 1810 devil ray |