Sand Dollar Hill (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as YPA044

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 78.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Gatun Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Pimiento, A. Hendy, A. Rincon, B. MacFadden; reposited in the FLMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. Pimiento, G. González-Barba, D. J. Ehret, B. J. MacFadden, A. J. W. Hendy and C. Jaramillo. 2013. Sharks and Rays (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the late Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):755-774 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160572: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 24.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus narinari Euphrasen 1790 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae