Where: Antwerpen, Chile (27.1° S, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 68.8° W)
When: Bahía Inglesa Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• According to the text: The Bahía lnglesa locality has been dated on the basis of diatoms at between 4.5 and 2.6 MYBP (Tsuchi et al. 1988). However, most recent studies (Godoy, E.; Marquardt, C.; Blanco, N., 2003. Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Santiago, Chile, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, 76) place Bahia Inglesa between the middle Miocene and the early Pliocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• Repository: Museum Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, Chile
Primary reference: D. J. Long. 1993. Late Miocene and Early Pliocene fish assemblages from the north central coast of Chile. Tertiary Research 14(3):117-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154114: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Pachyptila sp. Illiger 1811 prion | |
Actinopteri | |
Thunnus sp. South 1845 | |
Serranidae indet. Swainson 1839 perch-like fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Rajidae indet. Blainville 1816 skate | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
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Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark | |
Galeorhinus galeus Linnaeus 1758 school shark | |
Hexanchus griseus sixgill shark |