Where: Navidad, Chile (34.0° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 69.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Navidad Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Based on Encinas et al. 2006
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Covacevich & Frassinetti
• Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile
Primary reference: A. Encinas. 2002. Presencia de vertebrados marinos neógenos en la Formación Lo Abarca, Chile central. Primer congreso latinoamericano de paleontología de vertebrados, Chile 29 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 162666: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 01.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark |