Quebrada Pajaritos (Miocene of Peru)

Where: Piura, Peru (5.2° S, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Miramar Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Collection methods: Instituto de Paleontología de la Universidad de Piura

Primary reference: J. Apolín, G. González-Barba, and J. N. Martínez. 2007. Seláceos del Mioceno superior de Quebrada Pajaritos (Piura, Perú). XII Congreso Peruano de Geología. Resúmenes Extendidos [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

PaleoDB collection 162465: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 25.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Delphinoidea indet. Brown 1827 snail
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
Carcharhinus falciformis Bibron 1841 requiem shark
Carcharhinus brachyurus Gunther 1870 requiem shark
Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839 requiem shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna lewini Griffith and Smith 1834 hammerhead shark
Sphyrna zygaena Linnaeus 1758 hammerhead shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma cirratum Gmelin 1789 nurse shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual
Reptilia
 Testudines -
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian