Flavio Alfaro Road (Miocene to of Ecuador)
Where: Ecuador (0.7° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 77.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Angostura Formation, Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; muddy sandstone
• shore-face and inner-shelf paleoenvironments
• muddy, fine- grained sandstones with abundant mollusk shells
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204348: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
Carcharhinus obscurus Le Sueur 1818 requiem shark | |