Palmetto Mine (Agrico) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as PO116

Where: Polk County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcadia Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FLMNH

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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161380: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 04.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon subauriculatus Agassiz 1839 white shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon