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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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 | |
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark | |
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark | |
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark | |
Carcharodon subauriculatus Agassiz 1839 white shark | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon |