Where: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (51.5° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 5.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Breda Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Deposited in Harold van der Steen
Primary reference: F. H. Mollen. 2010. A partial rostrum of the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geologica Belgica 13(1-2):61-76 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
PaleoDB collection 162679: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 01.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Anotodus retroflexus elasmobranch | |
Aetobatus arcuatus Agassiz 1843 stingray | |
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Torpedo sp. Houttuyn 1764 torpedo | |
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758 skate | |
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806 angel shark | |
Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758 spiny dogfish | |
Mustelus sp. hound shark
Galeorhinus sp. de Blainville and Prévost 1816 school shark | |
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark | |
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Carcharhinus acanthodon requiem shark | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharodon escheri, "Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis, Lamna nasus
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Carcharodon escheri Agassiz 1843 white shark
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Lamna nasus mackerel shark | |
Cetorhinus maximus Gunner 1765 basking shark | |
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Megaselachus megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Pristiophorus sp. Bleeker 1859 saw shark | |
Hexanchus griseus, "Notorynchus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius
Hexanchus griseus sixgill shark
"Notorynchus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius Agassiz 1835 sevengill shark |