Palo palo (Miocene to of Ecuador)
Where: Ecuador (0.9° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Angostura Formation, Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; fine-grained sandstone
• shore-face and inner-shelf paleoenvironments
• muddy, fine-grained sandstones with abundant mollusk shells
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. D. Carillo-Briceño, O. A. Aguilera, and F. Rodriguez. 2014. Fossil Chondrichthyes from the central eastern Pacific Ocean and their paleoceanographic significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 51:76-90 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204351: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.09.2019
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Carcharhinus cf. brachyurus Gunther 1870 requiem shark
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929 sharpnose shark | |