Neogene Caribbean elasmobranchs: diversity, paleoecology and paleoenvironmental significance of the Cocinetas Basin assemblage (Guajira Peninsula, Colombia)

Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge Domingo; Luz, Zoneibe; Hendy, Austin; Kocsis, László; Aguilera, Orangel; Vennemann, Torsten

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-33-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-33-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-33-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

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08 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 08 Jan 2019

Neogene Caribbean elasmobranchs: diversity, paleoecology and paleoenvironmental significance of the Cocinetas Basin assemblage (Guajira Peninsula, Colombia)

Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Zoneibe Luz, Austin Hendy, László Kocsis, Orangel Aguilera, and Torsten Vennemann

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Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2018 raw isotopic data J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, Z. Luz, A. Hendy, L. Kocsis, O. Aguilera, and T. Vennemann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2390875

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By combining taxonomy and geochemistry, we corroborated the described paleoenvironments from a Neogene fossiliferous deposit of South America. Shark teeth specimens were used for taxonomic identification and as proxies for geochemical analyses. With a multidisciplinary approach we refined the understanding about the paleoenvironmental setting and the paleoecological characteristics of the studied groups, in our case, for the bull shark and its incursions into brackish waters.