Elasmobranch Assemblages Mio-Pliocene of Caribbean

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Came across this paper published last year,  apologies if it's already posted.

Located in the Falcon State of Venezuela the Urumaco formation provides a good look at the Sawfish and other elasmobranch Assemblages of the South Caribbean in the late Miocene, in an area that gets very little notoriety.

(A) Sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon sp., (B) Hammerhead shark Sphyrna cf. zygaena, (C) Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas, (D) “Big tooth” Carcharocles megalodon, (E) Tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier, (F) Spotted eagle ray Aetobatus cf. narinari, (G) Eagle rayMyliobatis sp., (H) Guitarfish Rhynchobatus sp., (I) Sawfish Pristis sp., (J) Stingray cf.Dasyatis. Artwork by Jorge Gonzalez.

 

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0139230#pone-0139230-g011