Punta la Gorda: Zanclean, Ecuador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
| Also studied in Pimiento and Balk | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Carcharhinus priscus
Agassiz 1843
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Carcharhinus egertoni
Agassiz 1843
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Negaprion eurybathrodon
(Blake 1862)
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Rhizoprionodon taxandriae
Leriche 1926
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ecuador | State/province: | Esmeraldas |
| Coordinates: | 0.6° South, 80.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.8° South, 79.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 5.33 to 3.4 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Taxonomic list comments:Originally proposed to occur in transitional strata between Borbon and Onzole Fms. (Longbottom, 1979). Both were formerly considered Miocene. Most recently, they have been propose to be Pliocene (Aalto and Miller, 1999). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CRB123b | ||
| Database number: | 151704 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen | Enterer: | C. Pimiento, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2013-10-10 16:13:02 | Last modified: | 2019-02-19 12:45:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-10-10 16:13:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48478. | A. E. Longbottom. 1979. Miocene Sharks' teeth from Ecuador. Bulletin of The British Museum (Natural History) Geology 32:57-70 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] |
Secondary references:
| 11138 | K. R. Aalto and W. Miller. 1999. Sedimentology of the Pliocene Upper Onzole Formation, an inner-trench slope succession in northwestern Ecuador. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 12:69-85 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13595 | R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61721 | 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] | |
| 49081 | C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] |