Guardamar del Segura: Zanclean, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Sendra and de Renzi 1995 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Astadelphis gastaldii
(Brandt 1874)
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Sendra Saez and Hodgson 1998 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Sendra and de Renzi 1995 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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16 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Alicante |
| Coordinates: | 38.1° North, 0.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.2° North, 1.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rojales Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Pliocene; Bajo Segura Basin, top of Pliocene unit I of Montenat (1977); P1/P2 system in Caracuel et al. (2005) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sandy shale | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: coastal and shallow marine | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 118104 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-06 02:11:05 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:10:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-06 02:11:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38036. | S. Adnet, A. C. Balbino, M. T. Antunes and J. M. Marin-Ferrer. 2009. New fossil teeth of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the Early Pliocene of Spain. Implication for its paleoecology in the Mediterranean. Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 256(1):7-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 39764 | J. Sendra and M. de Renzi. 1995. Mamiferos marinos fosiles del Neogeno del sur de Alicante. Jornadas de Paleontologia 11:165-166 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 39772 | J. R. Sendra Saez and D. Hodgson. 1998. Astadelphis gastaldii (Brandt, 1874) - Mammalia, Cetacea, Delphinidae - en el Plioceno Espanol. Jornada de Paleontologia 14:169-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |