Lo Abarca (Miocene to of Chile)

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
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark