Quebrada Pajaritos: Late/Upper Miocene, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Eusuchia indet. (Huxley 1875)
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonioidea indet. (Baur 1893)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma cirratum (Gmelin 1789)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus 1758)
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith 1834)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron 1841)
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes 1839)
Carcharhinus brachyurus (Gunther 1870)
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Gastropoda - Skeneidae
Delphinoidea indet. Brown 1827
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Piura
Coordinates: 5.2° South, 80.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.6° South, 79.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Miramar
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection method comments: Instituto de Paleontología de la Universidad de Piura
Metadata
Database number:162465
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-25 14:27:58 Last modified:2014-09-25 14:33:22
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-25 14:27:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52909. 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]