Arroyo Uitpa: Aquitanian, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Mobula sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Centrophoridae
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Centrophorus sp.
Müller and Henle 1837
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Chondrichthyes
- Dalatiidae
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Dalatias cf. licha
(Bonnaterre 1788)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus cf. oxyrinchus
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Alopiidae
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Alopias cf. superciliosus
(Lowe 1840)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles sp.
Jordan 1923
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Lamniformes indet.
Berg 1958
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= Megalolamna paradoxodon
Shimada et al. 2017
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Carcharhinus gibbesii
(Woodward 1889)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Sphyrnidae
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Sphyrna laevissima
(Cope 1867)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Hemipristis serra
Agassiz 1835
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Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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Heptranchias cf. howellii
(Reed 1946)
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Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Pristiophoridae
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Pristiophorus sp.
Bleeker 1859
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Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
(Müller 1846)
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Geography
| Country: | Colombia | State/province: | La Guajira | County: | Uitpa |
| Coordinates: | 12.0° North, 71.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° North, 67.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Uitpa | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The chondrichthyan-bearing strata lie at 0.5 to 10 m fom the base of the Uitpa Formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty,calcareous sandstone |
| Lithology description: The lower part of the Uitpa Formation comprises well-differentiated layers of soft light brown shales and calcareous bioturbated siltysandstones presenting thin selenite layers | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils,some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182218 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | C. Pimiento, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | C. Pimiento | ||
| Created: | 2016-10-15 05:03:50 | Last modified: | 2016-10-15 05:09:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-10-15 05:03:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60603. | J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, T. Argyriou, V. Zapata, R. Kindlimann, and C. Jaramillo. 2016. A new Early Miocene (Aquitanian) Elasmobranchii assemblage from the la Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Ameghiniana 53(2):77-99 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 67362 | K. Shimada, R. E. Chandler, O. Lok Tao Lam, T. Tanaka, and D. J. Ward. 2017. A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade. Historical Biology 29(5):704-714 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |