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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark | |
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark | |
Aetobatus narinari Euphrasen 1790 stingray | |
Myliobatis californica eagle ray |