Palo palo: Serravallian - Tortonian, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus cf. brachyurus (Gunther 1870)
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
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]