El Toro (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 3209

Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 113.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Monterey Formation, Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)

• age based on museum label

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 160726: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 27.08.2014, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
LACM 48016
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
LACM 144941