Also known as CRB123
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)
• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
•Onzole Fm. considered Miocene in Longbottom (1979). Most recently, Punta La Colorada locality has been considered Pliocene by Cione et al. 2007, based on Aalto and Miller, 1999.
• 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 151705: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 10.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Isistius triangulus Probst 1879 shark | |
"Odontaspis acutissima" = Carcharias acutissimus
"Odontaspis acutissima" = Carcharias acutissimus Agassiz 1843 sand shark | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
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Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Negaprion eurybathrodon Blake 1862 lemon shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus priscus Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark |