Playa de Oro: Serravallian - Tortonian, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Centrophoridae
Centrophorus sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan and Gilbert 1882)
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma sp. Müller and Henle 1838
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Chlamydoselachidae
Chlamydoselachus landinii n. sp. Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014
recombined as Rolfodon landinii
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Mobula sp. Rafinesque 1810
cf. Mobula sp. Rafinesque 1810
see common names

Geography
Country:Ecuador
Coordinates: 0.9° North, 78.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° North, 76.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Serravallian - Tortonian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Angostura
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: muddy, fine-grained sandstones with abundant mollusk shells
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: shore-face and inner-shelf paleoenvironments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:204346
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-09-05 14:12:13 Last modified:2019-09-05 14:22:59
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-05 14:12:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]