Also known as CRB123b
Where: Esmeraldas, Ecuador (0.6° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 79.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Onzole Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Onzole Fm. considered Miocene in Longbottom (1979). Most recently, Punta La Gorda locality has been considered Pliocene (Aalto and Miller, 1999). Also see Cione et al., 2007.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: A. E. Longbottom. 1979. Miocene Sharks' teeth from Ecuador. Bulletin of The British Museum (Natural History) Geology 32:57-70 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151704: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 10.10.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus sp., Carcharhinus priscus, Carcharhinus egertoni, Negaprion eurybathrodon, Rhizoprionodon taxandriae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus priscus Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Negaprion eurybathrodon Blake 1862 lemon shark
Rhizoprionodon taxandriae Leriche 1926 sharpnose shark | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
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