TU 960 - Refinería Panamá [middle Gatun Fm]: Tortonian, Panama
collected by E. Vokes and H. Vokes.
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Otodus megalodon | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Panama |
Coordinates: | 9.4° North, 79.8° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 9.1° North, 78.5° West |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified sandy siltstone |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collectors: | E. Vokes and H. Vokes. |
Metadata
Database number: | 160588 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
Subset of collection #: | 20 | ||
Created: | 2014-08-24 16:41:36 | Last modified: | 2014-08-24 16:41:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-24 16:41:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52363. | 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] |