Also known as XU012
Where: Grenada (12.5° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 61.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Kendance Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology:
•Belmont Formation is unconformable; the Kendeace Formation grades upwards into the carbonate-rich Carriacou Formation
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: R. W. Portell, G. Hubbell, S. Donovan, D.A.T. Harper, and R. Pickerill. 2008. Miocene sharks in the Kendeace and Grand Bay formations of Carriacou, The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 44(3):279-286 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162022: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 17.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark |