Palo palo: Serravallian - Tortonian, Ecuador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus cf. brachyurus
(Gunther 1870)
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Rhizoprionodon sp.
Whitley 1929
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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: | 204351 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2019-09-05 14:23:33 | Last modified: | 2019-09-05 14:23:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-09-05 14:23:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
61721. | J. D. Carillo-BriceƱo, 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] |