Price Creek Local Fauna (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as CO082

Where: Columbia County, Florida (30.2° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Statenville Formation, Early/Lower Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162456: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 25.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma sp. Müller and Henle 1838 nurse shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
"Physogaleus aduncus" = Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark
Physogaleus contortus Gibbes 1847 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929 sharpnose shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Carcharhinus signatus requiem shark
Negaprion brevirostris Poey 1868 lemon shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810 hammerhead shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark