Familia: Carcharhinidae
Genus: Carcharhinus

Species: †Carcharhinus caquetius

Name

†Carcharhinus caquetius Carrillo-Briceño et al., 2015

• Holotype: AMU-CURS 499, upper lateral tooth.
• Paratypes: AMU-CURS 477, two upper lateral teeth.

Type locality: Puente Río Urumaco, Urumaco Formation (middle–late Miocene), Middle Member, on the right bank of the Urumaco River (near the Urumaco River bridge), northwestern Venezuela.

Etymology: named in honor of the Caquetío pre-Hispanic tribe who lived in the Falcon state and other parts of western Venezuela.

References

• Carrillo-Briceño, J.D., Maxwell, E., Aguilera, O.A., Sánchez, R. & Sánchez-Villagra, M.R. 2015. Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela). PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139230. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139230 Reference page.