Essex (Dovercourt) (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Red Crag Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• LATE PLIOCENE- Age of the Red Crag Formation based on Kuhlmann et al. (2006)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Hazzledine Warren Bequest in 1958; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152481: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 22.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
eroded teeth, probably reworked